U.S. Senate
HR3590
PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Coburn Amendment
Filed 7 December, 2009
Introduction
This amendment was introduced by Senator Tom Coburn to the
original text of the protection
of conscience provisions of HR3590. However, parliamentary
procedures were used to keep this and other amendments from coming to a
vote. [Administrator]
SEC. 1304. NONDISCRIMINATION ON ABORTION AND RESPECT FOR RIGHTS OF
CONSCIENCE.
(a) NONDISCRIMINATION. A Federal agency or program, and
any State or local government, or institutional health care entity that
receives Federal financial assistance under this Act (or an amendment made
by this Act), shall not -
(1) subject any individual or institutional health care
entity to discrimination; or
(2) require any health care entity that is established or
regulated under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) to subject any
individual or institutional health care entity to discrimination,
on the basis that such health care entity does not provide, pay for,
provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.
(b) DEFINITION. In this section, the term "health care
entity" includes an individual physician or other health care professional,
a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance
organization, a health insurance plan, a plan sponsor, a health insurance
issuer, a qualified health plan or issuer offering such a plan, or any other
kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.
(c) ADMINISTRATION. The Office for Civil Rights of the
Department of Health and Human Services is designated to receive complaints
of discrimination based on this section, and coordinate the investigation of
such complaints.
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