# Plain Language Summary: Expanding Access to Family Planning Act

This bill would significantly increase federal funding for family planning clinics across the country. Specifically, it would provide $512 million per year for ten years (2024-2033) to support clinics that offer family planning services, plus an additional $50 million per year for building new clinics and renovating existing ones. The money would go directly to clinics that receive federal support through a program called Title X, which has been the main federal funding source for family planning services since the 1970s.

The bill includes important rules about how this money can be used. Clinics receiving these funds cannot exclude other organizations from participating in their programs just because they disagree with them—they can only exclude organizations that genuinely cannot provide the required services. This is meant to prevent clinics from turning away potential partners based on ideology or beliefs. Additionally, the bill requires that when a patient gets a positive pregnancy test at one of these clinics, they must be offered neutral, factual information about all their options: prenatal care and childbirth, adoption and foster care, or pregnancy termination. Clinics cannot push patients toward any particular choice; they must provide balanced counseling on whatever options the patient wants to learn about.

In practical terms, this bill would expand access to family planning services in communities across America, particularly in areas where these clinics are the main source of affordable reproductive healthcare. The increased funding would allow clinics to serve more patients, stay open longer, and improve their facilities. For patients, it means better access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing, and pregnancy-related counseling and care.

Expanding Access to Family Planning Act

Davids, Sharice

Expanding Access to Family Planning Act This bill provides, subject to specified conditions, funding through FY2033 for federally funded family planning services and clinics. In particular, the funds must be used for (1) grants and contracts that support the provision of family planning services, and (2) clinic infrastructure (e.g., construction and renovation of clinics). Clinics that receive funding to provide family planning services must offer each patient with a positive pregnancy test the opportunity for nondirective counseling on (1) prenatal care and delivery; (2) infant care, foster care, and adoption; and (3) pregnancy termination. This counseling must include referrals if requested by a patient. Additionally, if a funding recipient makes subawards for the provision of family planning services, the recipient may not prohibit an entity from participating in a subaward program for reasons other than the entity's inability to provide family planning services.