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HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
S. 166, 118th Congress
- Status
- In committee
- Introduced
- 01/31/2023
- Cosponsors
- 9
- Latest action
- 01/31/2023
About this bill
- Official title
- HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
- Sponsor
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Introduced in
- Senate
- Policy area
- Labor and Employment
- Committees
- Finance Committee
- Latest action
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Summary
Congressional Research Service, Introduced in Senate (01/31/2023)
Helping with Equal Access to Leave and Investing in Needs for Grieving Mothers and Fathers Act or the HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
This bill revises the family and medical leave entitlement and limits funding to certain family planning programs.
Specifically, the bill provides family and medical leave due to the spontaneous loss of an unborn child of an employee or spouse of the employee. It also establishes a tax credit for an individual who experiences, during the taxable year, the stillbirth of a child who would have been a qualifying child of the individual for the taxable year if the child had been born live.
The bill further prohibits the Office of Population Affairs within the Department of Health and Human Services from providing federal assistance to voluntary family planning programs that (1) perform abortions, (2) provide funding to another entity that performs abortions, or (3) refer patients to abortion providers.
Actions
Newest first
- 01/31/2023 · Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 01/31/2023
Introduced in Senate
Subjects: Abortion, Employee leave, Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management, Income tax credits.
Source: U.S. Government Publishing Office, GovInfo Bill Status; Congressional Research Service summaries · Last updated 01/31/2023