HR 2779 — Abortion Funding Awareness Act of 2025

Summary

This bill would require states to report information to the federal government about all Medicaid payments made using federal funds to abortion providers. States would need to submit these reports annually within 60 days of the end of each fiscal year and publish them on a public state website. The reports must include the payment amounts, purposes, number of abortions performed, gestational age of each abortion, and the abortion method used. The Department of Health and Human Services would then compile these state reports and submit them to Congress and publish them on a federal website within 90 days of each fiscal year end. The bill establishes specific definitions for "abortion," "abortion provider," and "Medicaid payments from federal funds" for purposes of the reporting requirement.

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)

Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9] (R-IN)

Money behind the sponsor

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

NULL $21,100
KIESLER POLICE SUPPLY, INC. $13,700
ELWOOD STAFFING $12,400
ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $12,399
APOLLO $9,100

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

Actions (2)

Apr 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
Apr 9, 2025 Introduced in House

Related bills (1)

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.

Text versions (1)

Introduced in House · Apr 9, 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

April 9, 2025

Mrs. Houchin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To require States to report information on Medicaid payments to abortion providers.

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 “Abortion Funding Awareness Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED REPORTING OF MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO ABORTION PROVIDERS.

(a) In General.—Not later than 60 days after the end of the first fiscal year ending after the date of enactment of this Act and each fiscal year thereafter, each State that makes a Medicaid payment from Federal funds during the fiscal year for any items or services furnished by an abortion provider shall—

(1) submit to the Secretary a report on all such payments; and

(2) publish the report on a public internet website of the State.

(b) Report Described.—The report under subsection (a) shall, with respect to a State that makes a Medicaid payment from Federal funds during the fiscal year for any items or services furnished by an abortion provider, include the following:

(1) With respect to each such payment, each of the following:

(A) A specification of the amount of the payment.

(B) A specification of the purposes for which the payment was made.

(C) A comparison of the amount of the payment with the amount of any such payment to the provider involved in any prior fiscal year.

(2) A specification of the number of abortions performed during the fiscal year by the provider involved and the gestational age with respect to each such abortion.

(3) A specification of the method of abortion used.

(c) Report to Congress.—Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year described in subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Finance of the Senate, and publish on a public internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a report that—

(1) contains the reports submitted pursuant to subsection

(a) for the fiscal year; and

(2) includes a summary of the reports.

(d) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) Abortion.—The term “abortion” means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device—

(A) to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant; or

(B) to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other than—

(i) after viability, to produce a live birth and preserve the life and health of the child born alive; or

(ii) to remove a dead unborn child.

(2) Abortion provider.—The term “abortion provider” means an entity that—

(A) performs (or refers an individual for) an abortion; or

(B) controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, an entity described in subparagraph (A).

(3) Medicaid payment from federal funds.—The term “Medicaid payment from Federal funds” means a payment for which there is Federal financial participation under title XIX of the Social Security Act.

(4) Secretary.—The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

(5) State.—The term “State” has the meaning given the term for purposes of title XIX of the Social Security Act.

(e) Conforming Amendments to Social Security Act.—Section 1902(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)) is amended—

(1) by striking “and” at the end of paragraph (86);

(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (87) and inserting “; and”; and

(3) by inserting after paragraph (87) the following:

“(88) provide for the submission of reports in accordance with section 2 of the Abortion Funding Awareness Act of 2025.”. <all>

Comments

Loading comments…