United States HR 4934: Dignity for Aborted Children Act
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (as of 2019-11-01)
State: United States · Session: 116 · Bill: HR 4934
Subjects: Abortion, Cemeteries and funerals, Census and government statistics, Civil actions and liability, Congressional oversight, Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation, Health information and medical records, Health personnel
Sponsors: Jackie Walorski, Alexander X. Mooney, Andy Biggs, Andy Harris, Ann Wagner, Barry Loudermilk, Bill Posey, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Brad R. Wenstrup, Brian Babin, Bruce Westerman, CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, Carol D. Miller, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Darin LaHood, Debbie Lesko, Doug Lamborn, Eric A. "Rick" Crawford, Greg Gianforte, Greg Pence, Gregory Murphy, JOHN M. SHIMKUS, James R. Baird, Jason Smith, Jeff Fortenberry
Bill Text
I 116THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 4934 To protect the dignity of fetal remains, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OCTOBER30, 2019 Mrs. W ALORSKI(for herself, Mr. BANKS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. P ENCE, Mr. HICEof Georgia, Mr. ABRAHAM, Mr. GAETZ, Mr. KELLYof Pennsylvania, Mr. G IANFORTE, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. HOLLINGS- WORTH, Mr. KELLYof Mississippi, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. M ARCHANT, Mr. BABIN, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. KINGof Iowa, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. M OONEYof West Virginia, Mr. LATTA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. KEVIN H ERNof Oklahoma, Mr. WATKINS, Mr. SPANO, Mrs. WAGNER, Ms. G RANGER, Ms. CHENEY, Mrs. MILLER, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. R ATCLIFFE, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mrs. RODGERSof Washington, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, and Mr. B UCSHON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To protect the dignity of fetal remains, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dignity for Aborted 4 Children Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:10 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4934.IH H4934 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 4934 IH SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF FETAL REMAINS. 1 (a) I NGENERAL.—Part H of title IV of the Public 2 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289 et seq.) is amended 3 by adding at the end the following: 4 ‘‘SEC. 498F. PROTECTION OF FETAL REMAINS. 5 ‘‘(a) C ONSENTREQUIREMENT.— 6 ‘‘(1) I NGENERAL.—Any abortion provider, 7 after performing an abortion in or affecting inter-8 state or foreign commerce, shall provide the patient 9 with an informed consent form, offering the patient 10 the following options for disposal of the human fetal 11 tissue from the abortion: 12 ‘‘(A) The patient may take possession of 13 the human fetal tissue and may choose to 14 transfer the tissue to an entity providing inter-15 ment or cremation services. 16 ‘‘(B) The patient may elect to release the 17 human fetal tissue to the abortion provider, 18 who shall be subject to the requirements of sub-19 section (b), except that the option described in 20 this subparagraph shall not be available if the 21 patient does not expel the human fetal tissue at 22 the premises of the abortion provider. 23 ‘‘(2) C ONSENT REQUIREMENTS.—An abortion 24 provider described in paragraph (1) shall— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:10 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4934.IH H4934 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HR 4934 IH ‘‘(A) obtain a patient signature on each 1 consent form required under paragraph (1); 2 and 3 ‘‘(B) retain each such form in the patient’s 4 file. 5 ‘‘(b) P ROVIDERDISPOSALREQUIREMENT; REPORT-6 INGREQUIREMENTS.— 7 ‘‘(1) I N GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any 8 abortion provider who, after performing an abortion, 9 in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, in 10 which the woman on whom the abortion was per-11 formed elects, pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(B), to 12 release the human fetal tissue to the abortion pro-13 vider, to fail to provide for the final disposition of 14 the human fetal tissue through interment or crema-15 tion, consistent with State law regarding the dis-16 posal of human remains, not later than 7 days after 17 the date on which the abortion procedure was per-18 formed. Such final disposition of human fetal tissue 19 may be carried out through interment or cremation 20 of tissue from more than one abortion procedure col-21 lectively. 22 ‘‘(2) R EPORTING BY ABORTION PROVIDERS.— 23 Each abortion provider described in subsection 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:10 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4934.IH H4934 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •HR 4934 IH (a)(1) shall submit annual reports to the Secretary 1 indicating, with respect to the reporting period— 2 ‘‘(A) the aggregate number of abortion 3 procedures performed by such abortion pro-4 vider; 5 ‘‘(B) the gestational age at the time of 6 each such procedure; 7 ‘‘(C) for abortions carried out using an 8 abortion method other than chemical abortion— 9 ‘‘(i) the aggregate number of fetal re-10 mains for which the abortion provider pro-11 vides for final disposition through inter-12 ment or cremation (other than by releasing 13 the fetal remains to p
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