Expand access to family planning services.

Cosponsors - H.R.2762 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Expanding Access to Family Planning Act ... Davids, Sharice [D-KS]

Sharice Davids is listed as a cosponsor of H.R.2762, the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act.

Cosponsors - H.R.2762 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Expanding Access to Family Planning Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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HHS issued a final rule revising Title X regulations to ensure access to equitable, affordable, client-centered family planning services, revoking 2019 requirements including limits on nondirective options counseling and abortion referrals, effective November 8, 2021.

Federal executive action restored and broadened Title X family-planning program rules during Davids's later House service. This is evidence of partial policy delivery, but not a Davids-authored legislative enactment.

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Federal Register: Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services
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HHS found the 2019 rule diverted funds from Title X's core purpose to provide a broad range of family planning services; after that rule, 19 grantees, 231 subrecipients, and 945 service sites withdrew, and the program served 844,083 fewer clients in 2019 than 2018.

The rulemaking record shows the 2021 reversal addressed concrete access losses in family planning services, supporting partial delivery at the federal policy level.

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Federal Register: Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services
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The House roll call records H.R. 8373, the Right to Contraception Act, passed 228-195 on July 21, 2022; Rep. Davids (KS) is listed as voting Yea.

Davids voted for a bill to protect access to contraception, a core family-planning service. Because the bill did not become law, it is evidence of concrete effort rather than full fulfillment.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House: Roll Call 385, H.R. 8373 Right to Contraception Act
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Congress.gov summarizes H.R. 8373 as setting statutory protections for an individual's right to access contraception and a health care provider's right to provide contraception and related information. The latest action was Senate receipt on July 21, 2022, and the bill status was Passed House.

The bill directly matched the promise's family-planning access goal but stalled after House passage, so the legislative attempt failed to deliver statutory expansion.

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Congress.gov: H.R.8373 - Right to Contraception Act, 117th Congress
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TIME reported that Davids was one of seven House Democrats leading an April 3, 2025 letter urging HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore Title X funding after a freeze affecting family planning services.

Davids later helped press HHS to restore Title X funds. This shows continued effort, but also that access remained contested rather than durably expanded.

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TIME: More than 150 House Democrats Urge HHS to Restore Title X Funds
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The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration began withholding tens of millions in Title X funds from Planned Parenthood and other providers, a move expected to curtail access to cancer screenings and affordable birth control; it described Title X as supporting family planning aid and reproductive health care, including birth control and nonabortion services.

Later federal developments cut against a durable fulfillment finding: family-planning access through Title X faced a new funding freeze after earlier restoration.

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Washington Post: Trump administration freezes tens of millions in family planning funding
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