{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-8296","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 8296","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022","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":"Display Title","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2022-07-07","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-07-15","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h360","question":"On Passage","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act","result":"Passed","yea":219,"nay":210,"present":0,"not_voting":2,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll360.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate.","date":"2022-07-18"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2022-07-15","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Women’s Health Protection Act","result":"Failed","yea":209,"nay":218,"present":0,"not_voting":3,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll359.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-07-15","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Women's Health Protection Act of 2022"},{"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, bars federal and state governments from imposing listed limitations and requirements on those services, and allows lawsuits to enforce the right.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H95E9140D87B34515A484375B25CD53C4"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H62E6C3E5BC48417DB33E65B542DB0FEF"},{"label":"Sec. 8","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H6902A154D25447ADBDA82FAF08DE21DD"}]},"core_areas":["Statutory right to provide and receive abortion services","Limits on federal and state abortion restrictions","Federal preemption of conflicting laws","Civil enforcement and court remedies"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Gives a health care provider a statutory right to provide abortion services, and gives the provider's patient a corresponding right to receive them, without the limitations and requirements listed in the section.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H95E9140D87B34515A484375B25CD53C4"}},{"text":"Bars, among other listed items, prohibitions on abortion before fetal viability, and prohibitions after viability when the treating provider's good-faith medical judgment is that continuing the pregnancy would risk the patient's life or health.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H95E9140D87B34515A484375B25CD53C4"}},{"text":"Extends the same protection to any limitation or requirement that is the same as or similar to the listed ones, or that singles out abortion services, providers or facilities and impedes access to abortion services.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H95E9140D87B34515A484375B25CD53C4"}},{"text":"Requires a party defending such a limitation to establish by clear and convincing evidence that it significantly advances the safety of abortion services or patient health and that no less restrictive alternative could do so.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H95E9140D87B34515A484375B25CD53C4"}},{"text":"Supersedes conflicting federal and state law, whether adopted before or after enactment, but does not apply to laws on physical access to clinic entrances, insurance or medical assistance coverage of abortion services, or generally applicable state contract law.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H62E6C3E5BC48417DB33E65B542DB0FEF"}},{"text":"Lets the Attorney General and any adversely affected individual or entity, including providers and patients, bring civil actions against a state or government official, and removes state immunity from such challenges.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 8","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H6902A154D25447ADBDA82FAF08DE21DD"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text/eh#H62E6C3E5BC48417DB33E65B542DB0FEF"},"heading":"Applicability and preemption","effect":"Sets the Act to override conflicting federal and state law, but states it does not supersede or apply to four listed areas: clinic entrance access laws, insurance or medical assistance coverage of abortion services, one procedure in 18 U.S.C. 1531(b)(1), and state contract law.","amount":null,"quote":"(b) Limitations.—The provisions of this Act shall not supersede or apply to—"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-07-15","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/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/8296","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8296/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-8296.png","v":"7e793a5e7659","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 8296, 117th Congress: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. House: 219 Yea, 210 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 15 Jul 2022."}}