Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Norman
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a federal, standardized abortion data reporting system tied to Medicaid family planning payments. It would require states to submit certified abortion data to the CDC using a common worksheet and set deadlines and penalties for noncompliance or knowing falsification.
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- States: Would have to submit standardized, aggregate abortion data to the CDC by specific year-end deadlines to receive Medicaid payments for certain family planning services. States that knowingly provide false data could lose payments for the first full fiscal year after the determination.
- Medicaid beneficiaries and family planning programs: Funding for family planning services described in Medicaid would be conditioned on a state's timely and accurate reporting, which could delay or withhold payments if deadlines or certification rules are missed.
- CDC and public health researchers: The CDC would maintain a national surveillance system, publish periodic national abortion reports, provide technical assistance to states, and collect mandatory variables that allow cross-tabulation by age, gestational age, race and ethnicity, method, prior pregnancies, residence, and more.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
National abortion data system at CDC
This bill would direct CDC to run a national system to collect abortion data in one standard way. States would use a worksheet with ten required items: age; gestational age; race; ethnicity; race by ethnicity; method; marital status; past pregnancies and outcomes; residence; and whether the child survived. The system would allow cross-tabs, like age by gestational age. CDC could add voluntary questions, update the list, give states technical help, and publish an annual report by December 30 of the third year after the year covered.
Medicaid family planning payments tied to reporting
This bill would tie federal Medicaid payment for family planning to state abortion data reporting. Starting in the year after two full years from enactment, states would need to send required data to CDC by December 31 of the prior year. The data would cover the year before that, and the state would have to certify it is accurate. If a state misses that earlier date but sends data by December 31 of the same year, it would still get payment for that year, including retroactive payment. If CDC finds a state knowingly sent false data, the state would lose federal payment for these services for the first full fiscal year after that finding. If you get Medicaid family planning only coverage, your access could be affected if your state does not comply.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Norman
SC • R
Cosponsors
Allen
GA • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Webster (FL)
FL • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Fulcher
ID • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Self
TX • R
Sponsored 1/22/2025
Biggs (AZ)
AZ • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Harris (MD)
MD • R
Sponsored 2/5/2025
Biggs (SC)
SC • R
Sponsored 4/1/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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