{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-3755","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 3755","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To protect a person's ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide abortion services.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To protect a person's ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide abortion services."},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2021-06-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2021-09-24","vote":{"id":"117-2021-h295","question":"On Passage","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act","result":"Passed","yea":218,"nay":211,"present":0,"not_voting":3,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll295.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 46 - 48. Record Vote Number: 65. (CR S826)","date":"2022-02-28"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2021-09-24","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act","result":"Failed","yea":210,"nay":219,"present":0,"not_voting":2,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll294.xml"},{"chamber":"senate","date":"2022-02-28","question":"On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed","title":"Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3755.","result":"Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected","yea":46,"nay":48,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00065.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2021-09-24","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Women's Health Protection Act of 2021"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill prohibits governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, governments may not limit a provider's ability to"},{"k":"li","t":"prescribe certain drugs,","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"offer abortion services via telemedicine, or","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"immediately provide abortion services when the provider determines a delay risks the patient's health.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"Furthermore, governments may not require a provider to"},{"k":"li","t":"perform unnecessary medical procedures,","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"provide medically inaccurate information,","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"comply with credentialing or other conditions that do not apply to providers whose services are medically comparable to abortions, or","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"carry out all services connected to an abortion.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"In addition, governments may not (1) require patients to make medically unnecessary in-person visits before receiving abortion services or disclose their reasons for obtaining such services, or (2) prohibit abortion services before fetal viability or after fetal viability when a provider determines the pregnancy risks the patient's life or health."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also prohibits other governmental measures that are similar to the bill's specified restrictions or that otherwise single out and impede access to abortion services, unless a government demonstrates that the measure significantly advances the safety of abortion services or health of patients and cannot be achieved through less restrictive means."},{"k":"p","t":"The Department of Justice, individuals, or providers may bring a lawsuit to enforce this bill, and states are not immune from suits for violations."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill applies to restrictions imposed both prior and subsequent to the bill's enactment."}],"words":236},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Establishes a statutory right for health care providers to provide abortion services and for patients to receive them, and bars federal and state limitations and requirements that the text lists.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H22CAF510F48F4E24A4EE85761D487EB2"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H4EAC1B6465B24EA39BC8117FFF9F3472"}]},"core_areas":["Statutory right to provide and receive abortion services","Federal and state limits on abortion-specific requirements and restrictions","Application of the Act over conflicting federal and state law","Civil enforcement actions against States and government officials"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Provides that a health care provider may provide abortion services, and the patient may receive them, without listed limitations, including required tests or procedures not generally required for medically comparable procedures and required medically unnecessary in-person visits.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H22CAF510F48F4E24A4EE85761D487EB2"}},{"text":"Bars prohibitions on abortion before fetal viability, and after viability when the treating provider's good-faith medical judgment is that continuing the pregnancy would pose a risk to the patient's life or health.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H22CAF510F48F4E24A4EE85761D487EB2"}},{"text":"Extends the protection to any limitation or requirement that is the same as or similar to those listed, or that singles out abortion services and impedes access; a party defending one must show by clear and convincing evidence that it significantly advances safety or patient health and that no less restrictive alternative would do so.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H22CAF510F48F4E24A4EE85761D487EB2"}},{"text":"Applies to federal and state law, whether adopted before or after enactment, and bars their enforcement where they conflict with the Act; it does not apply to laws regulating physical access to clinic entrances, insurance or medical assistance coverage of abortion services, the procedure described in section 1531(b)(1) of title 18, or generally applicable State contract law.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H4EAC1B6465B24EA39BC8117FFF9F3472"}},{"text":"Allows the Attorney General, and any individual or entity adversely affected, to bring civil actions against a State or government official over a violating limitation, requires courts to set aside violating limitations, and awards costs and reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing plaintiff.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 8","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H8FD42C1307E4471D8A2E807DEEA6AA78"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh#H4EAC1B6465B24EA39BC8117FFF9F3472"},"heading":"Applicability and preemption","effect":"Makes the Act supersede and apply to federal and State law that conflicts with it, and sets out four exceptions: laws regulating physical access to clinic entrances, insurance or medical assistance coverage of abortion services, the procedure described in 18 U.S.C. 1531(b)(1), and generally applicable State contract law.","amount":null,"quote":"The provisions of this Act shall not supersede or apply to— (1) laws regulating physical access to clinic entrances; (2) insurance or medical assistance coverage of abortion services;"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2021-09-24","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3755/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-3755.png","v":"3d4add452ed4","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3755, 117th Congress: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021. House: 218 Yea, 211 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 24 Sep 2021."}}