# 119-s-2189: Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act

119-s-2189, Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2189
- Congress: 119
- Title: Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-06-26
- Sponsor: Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Taxation
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Expands the medical expense deduction to cover assisted reproduction costs.** This bill would treat procedures and services aimed at achieving and carrying a pregnancy to term as eligible medical care for taxpayers, their spouses, or dependents who intend to assume legal custody. - Families and prospective parents would be able to include costs like in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, gamete and embryo donation, and certain surrogacy expenses when calculating medical deductions. These items would count under existing medical expense rules and limits. - People pursued by surrogacy would see both traditional and gestational surrogacy costs treated as the taxpayer's medical expenses when the taxpayer or their spouse or dependent intends to assume legal responsibility for any child born as a result. - Tax filers who itemize would apply the change to taxable years beginning after enactment, so eligible expenses could be claimed on returns once the law takes effect.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Tax break for assisted reproduction: benefit, high. If enacted, you could treat assisted reproduction costs as medical expenses for the federal medical expense deduction. This would cover IVF, intrauterine insemination (IUI), intracervical insemination, gamete or embryo donation, and both traditional and gestational surrogacy. Surrogacy expenses wou…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026
- 119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act
- 119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act
- 119-s-1541: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-2189 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2189)

## Related
- [119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4949)
- [119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2838)
- [119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2819)
- [119-s-1541: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1541)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-1507: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1507)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2189 (as of 2025-12-21).