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Weekly Legislative Update: March 6, 2023

Congressional Schedule: March 6-10, 2023

Floor Action:

The House and Senate are in session this week. 

Mark-Ups:

Education—On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce is scheduled to consider H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. 


Bills Introduced: February 27-March 3, 2023 

Abortion

H.R. 1224—Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA)/Energy and Commerce (2/27/23)—A bill to provide for a national public awareness campaign to inform health care professionals and health care professional students on how to help patients navigate the legal landscape in the United States with respect to abortion and other reproductive health care services following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1297—Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX)/Armed Services (3/1/23)—A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from paying or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services, and for other purposes. 

Civil Rights 

S. 558—Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/28/23)—A bill to codify Executive Order 13950 (relating to combatting race and sex stereotyping), and for other purposes. 

H.R. 1229—Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC)/Education and the Workforce; Oversight and Accountability; Armed Services (2/28/23)—A bill to codify Executive Order 13950 (relating to combating race and sex stereotyping), and for other purposes. 

Education 

S. 613—Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (3/1/23)—A bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth. 
Family Support

S. 643—Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)/Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (3/2/23)—A bill to modernize the farmers’ market nutrition program under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, and for other purposes. 

Health

H. Res. 172—Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY)/Oversight and Accountability (2/27/23)—A resolution expressing support for designation of March 3, 2023, as “National Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Day.”

S. Res. 90—Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)/Judiciary (3/1/23)—A resolution recognizing the significance of endometriosis as an unmet chronic disease for women and designating March 2023 as “Endometriosis Awareness Month.” 
Reproductive Health

S. 565—Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/28/23)—A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to pregnancy-help organizations.

S. 624—Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (3/2/23)—A bill to prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes. 

Women’s History

S. 568—Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)/Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (2/28/23)—A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $20 federal reserve notes so as to include a likeness of Harriet Tubman, and for other purposes. 

H.R. 1237—Rep. Don Davis (D-NC)/Financial Services (2/28/23)—A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Sarah Keys Evans, and for other purposes. 

H.R. 1272—Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX)/Oversight and Accountability (3/1/23)—A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4400 East Paisano Drive in El Paso, Texas, as the “Enedina Sanchez Cordero Post Office Building.” 

H.R. 1318—Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO)/Natural Resources (3/1/23)—A bill to authorize the location of a monument on the National Mall to commemorate and honor the women’s suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes. 

Violence Against Women 

S. 560—Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)/Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2/28/23)—A bill to reaffirm civil rights, victims’ rights, and consumer protections.

H.R. 1231—Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL)/Energy and Commerce (2/28/23)—A bill to reaffirm civil rights, victims’ rights, and consumer protections.  

H.R. 1292—Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)/Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Oversight and Accountability (3/1/23)—A bill to require federal law enforcement agencies to report on cases of missing or murdered Indians, and for other purposes.