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HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
3/12/2024, 12:00 PM
Summary of Bill S 166
The bill aims to establish a grant program that would provide funding to organizations that offer support services to parents who have lost a child. These services may include counseling, support groups, and other resources to help parents cope with their grief and navigate the difficult process of healing after such a tragic loss.
Additionally, the HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act seeks to raise awareness about the impact of child loss on parents and families, and to promote research into effective ways to support grieving parents. The bill also includes provisions for training healthcare providers and other professionals to better support parents who have experienced the loss of a child. Overall, the HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act is aimed at providing much-needed support and resources to parents who have experienced the devastating loss of a child, and at raising awareness about the unique challenges faced by grieving parents.
Congressional Summary of S 166
Helping with Equal Access to Leave and Investing in Needs for Grieving Mothers and Fathers Act or the HEALING Mothers and Fathers Act
This bill revises the family and medical leave entitlement and limits funding to certain family planning programs.
Specifically, the bill provides family and medical leave due to the spontaneous loss of an unborn child of an employee or spouse of the employee. It also establishes a tax credit for an individual who experiences, during the taxable year, the stillbirth of a child who would have been a qualifying child of the individual for the taxable year if the child had been born live.
The bill further prohibits the Office of Population Affairs within the Department of Health and Human Services from providing federal assistance to voluntary family planning programs that (1) perform abortions, (2) provide funding to another entity that performs abortions, or (3) refer patients to abortion providers.
