The Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act would lower barriers to sexual and reproductive care and help ensure disabled people get timely access to culturally competent health care. Specifically, the bill would: Provide grant funding to carry out training programs for health care professionals providing reproductive health care for individuals with disabilities; Establish grants to expand the health care provider workforce by increasing the number of people with disabilities in those professions; Provide grant funding to carry out education programs for entities with a demonstrated expertise in serving individuals with disabilities, focused on the sexual and reproductive health care needs of this population; Create a new technical assistance center to provide recommendations and best practices regarding sexual and reproductive health care for people with disabilities; and Direct the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a study to analyze reproductive health care for people with disabilities.
Advance the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act to improve sexual and reproductive health care access for people with disabilities through provider training grants, workforce-representation grants, education programs, a technical assistance center, and an HHS study.
Occurrences
Pressley reintroduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act; the legislation would fund training and education programs, expand workforce representation, create a technical assistance center, and direct an HHS study.
Evidence
Pressley's office says she, Patty Murray, and Tammy Duckworth reintroduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act in May 2026. The release describes grant funding, workforce representation, education programs, a technical assistance center, and an HHS study.
The draft House bill text names the short title as the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act and states that Pressley introduced a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve reproductive health care for individuals with disabilities.
Pressley's office says she reintroduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act in July 2023. The release lists $10 million for provider training, $15 million for disabled representation in the physician and nursing workforce, $10 million for education programs, $10 million for a technical assistance center, and $15 million for an HHS study.
Pressley's office says Pressley and Cori Bush introduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act in September 2022 to reduce barriers to reproductive health care for people with disabilities, including grants, workforce training, a technical assistance center, and an HHS study.
Senator Duckworth's office says Duckworth and Murray introduced the Senate version of the Reproductive Healthcare Accessibility Act in August 2022, with components for provider training grants, training people with disabilities in the health care workforce, education grants, a technical assistance center, and an HHS study.
Assessments
Pressley has repeatedly introduced or reintroduced the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act, including a May 2026 bicameral reintroduction matching the promised components: provider training grants, workforce-representation grants, education programs, a technical assistance center, and an HHS study. The evidence shows concrete legislative effort, but only bill introduction/reintroduction, not enactment or implementation. Because Pressley remains in federal office and the 119th Congress effort was still pending in the current term context, the promise is not yet delivered or finally failed.