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Dignity for Aborted Children Act

Introduced Jan 24, 2025Senate billPolicy area: HealthLast action Jan 24, 2025Sponsor: Pete Ricketts(R-NE)

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What the bill does

Dignity for Aborted Children Act This bill establishes requirements for abortion providers with respect to the disposal of human fetal tissue from an abortion. Specifically, it requires abortion providers to obtain a patient's informed consent for one of two specified methods of disposition and to retain the corresponding documentation in the patient's file. First, patients may choose to retain possession of the tissue. A patient may choose to transfer the tissue to an entity that provides interment or cremation services. Second, patients may choose to release the tissue to the provider. Providers must ensure any tissue released to them is interred or cremated within seven days of the procedure in a manner consistent with state law regarding the disposal of human remains. Abortion providers must submit reports annually to the Department of Health and Human Services about these requirements and other specified information. The bill establishes civil penalties for violations of the requirement to retain documentation of informed consent, and it establishes criminal penalties for violations of the requirement regarding the disposal of human fetal tissue.

Latest official action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$1.1M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 24, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 17, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST

Apr 22, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by STUDENTS FOR LIFE ACTION

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST

Aug 4, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by STUDENTS FOR LIFE ACTION

Official Congressional Actions

Jan 24, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

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Jan 24, 2025IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST	SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST	$600.0K	Apr 17, 2025	2025Q1	MEDINSMMM
SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST	SUSAN B ANTHONY LIST	$490.0K	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	CONVETDEF
STUDENTS FOR LIFE ACTION

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.