Abortion
H.R. 5551—-Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)/Energy and Commerce (9/18/14)—A bill to ensure that women seeking an abortion receive an ultrasound and an opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion.
Health
H.R. 5475—Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA)/Veterans’ Affairs (9/16/14)—A bill to improve the care provided by the secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn children.
S. 2876—-Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (9/18/14)—A bill to establish a public education and awareness and access program relating to emergency contraception.
Human Trafficking
H.R. 5607—-Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA)/Foreign Affairs, Judiciary (9/18/14)—A bill to establish the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to review federal government policy on human trafficking.
International
H.R. 2853—Sen. Christopher Coons (D-DE)/Foreign Affairs (9/18/14)—A bill to implement policies to end preventable maternal, newborn, and child deaths globally.
S. 2909—-Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA)/Foreign Relations (9/18/14)—A bill to authorize a comprehensive strategic approach for United States foreign assistance to developing countries to end extreme global poverty and hunger, achieve food and nutrition security, promote endurable, long-term, agricultural-led economic growth, improve nutritional outcomes, especially for women and children, build resilient, adaptive, local capacity of vulnerable populations, and for other related purposes.
Military
S. 2843—-Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)/Armed Services (9/17/14)—A bill to provide certain members of the reserve components of the armed forces who are victims of sex-related offenses with access to a special victims’ counsel.
H.R. 5524—-Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)/Armed Services (9/17/14)—A bill to ensure that women members of the armed forces and their families have access to the contraception they need in order to promote the health and readiness of all members of the armed forces, and for other purposes.
Miscellaneous
H.R. 5602—-Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA)/Oversight and Government Reform (9/18/14)—A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 21350 Avalon Boulevard in Carson, California, as the “Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office.”
H.R. 5628—-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)/Oversight and Government Reform (9/18/14)—A bill to prohibit accessing pornographic web sites from federal computers, and for other purposes.
Small Business
H.R. 5527—-Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT)/Science, Space, and Technology (9/18/14)—A bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for women.
H.R. 5584—-Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA)/Small Business (9/18/14)—A bill to reauthorize the women’s business center program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Violence Against Women
S. 2816—-Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)/Finance (9/16/14)—A bill to eliminate the specific exemption for professional football leagues and to provide a special rule for other professional sports leagues, and to provide an additional authorization of appropriations for the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.
H.R. 5536—-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)/Judiciary (9/18/14)—A bill to encourage states to provide for enhanced sentencing penalties for persons convicted of committing, or attempting to commit, an act of domestic violence in the presence of minor children.
H.R. 5538—-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)/Judiciary (9/18/14)—A bill to establish a grant program to empower relatives, friends, and co-workers of domestic violence victims to create safety plans.
