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Federal · 119th Congress

S178 Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

Direction

Abortion funding insuranceAI label

Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

Withholds Medicaid matching funds for family planning services from states that fail to submit required abortion data to the CDC, so states face financial pressure to report more data on abortions.

Subject to paragraph (2), as a condition of receiving payment under subsection (a)(5) with respect to any amount expended during a year ... for family planning services and supplies ... each State shall ... submit to the abortion surveillance system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... at least abortion data regarding the mandatory questions

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Abortion provider clinic regulationAI label

No change to abortion access model confidence 70%

Requires CDC to maintain a standardized national abortion surveillance system with mandatory state reporting on detailed variables including gestational age, procedure type, and survival, plus annual public reports, so more standardized and complete abortion data is collected and published.

The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall-- (1) maintain a surveillance system to collect aggregate data in a standardized format on abortions in the United States;

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Abortion bans gestational limitsAI label

No change to abortion access model confidence 80%

Mandates collection and cross-tabulation of data on gestational age at time of abortion and abortion method type, enabling more detailed public statistics but without imposing any new limits or bans on abortion procedures.

shall, at a minimum, include questions on the variables listed in subsection (b), to be treated as mandatory questions ... (2) Gestational age in completed weeks at the time of abortion. (6) The abortion method type.

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  1. Introduced (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. President
  6. Law

Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6

Last action
2025-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Filed
2025-01-22
Committee
Finance Committee
Sponsor
Joni Ernst R + 11 cosponsors (11 R)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill conditions Medicaid family planning funding on state submission of detailed abortion data to CDC (with penalties for false reporting), creates a standardized national surveillance system with mandatory variables including gestational age and procedure type, requires cross-tabulation and annual public reports, and provides technical assistance; these are reporting, data collection, and funding-linkage provisions under abortion without changing legal access, gestational limits, or provider rules themselves.

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-01-22LibraIntroduced in Senate
2025-01-22SenatRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.