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Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for limitations on copayments for contraception furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jan 6, 2025

Latest action (Feb 6, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense
Legislative subjects (5)
Family planning and birth controlHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessVeterans' medical careWomen's health

Summary

This bill amends the Veterans Affairs benefits code to limit copayments for contraception provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill prohibits the VA from charging veterans copayments that exceed the VA's actual cost for medications provided. The bill also prohibits the VA from charging copayments for contraceptive items that are required by federal law to be covered without cost-sharing by health insurance plans. The provision ensures that veterans have access to contraception without excessive out-of-pocket costs through the VA.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
86 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Julia Brownley’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $9,600
  • HAAS AUTOMATION $9,100
  • SPARAGNA & SPARAGNA $6,600
  • HACKMAN CAPITAL $6,600
  • UNITED STAFFING ASSOCIATES $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Julia Brownley → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. Feb 6, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. · house
  2. Jan 6, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
  3. Jan 6, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 1644 — Copay Fairness for Veterans Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 150 — People CARE Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • S 4638 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 3358 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 6580 — VA National Formulary Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1404 — CHAMPVA Children’s Care Protection Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1644 — Copay Fairness for Veterans Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 220 — Veterans Infertility Treatment Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 5665 — ACE Veterans Act · Introduced Dec 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • S 2943 — ACE Veterans Act · Introduced Sep 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 1656 — PLUS for Veterans Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 7472 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal a certain limitation on the receipt of assistance under both the Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Readiness and Employment program and Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance programs. · Introduced Mar 2, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 6, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2025

Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. McClellan, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Cherfilus- McCormick, Mr. Morelle, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Peters, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Landsman, Mrs. Ramirez, and Ms. Schakowsky) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for limitations on copayments for contraception furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act”.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON COPAYMENTS FOR CONTRACEPTION.

Section 1722A(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking “to pay” and all that follows through the period and inserting “to pay—”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:

“(A) an amount in excess of the cost to the Secretary for medication described in paragraph (1); or

“(B) an amount for any contraceptive item for which coverage under health insurance coverage is required without the imposition of any cost-sharing requirement pursuant to section 2713(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-13(a)(4)).”. <all>

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