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The bill substantially expands and stabilizes federal Title X funding and clinic capacity to increase family-planning access and informed counseling, while raising federal spending and creating potential provider conscience conflicts and participation challenges in some communities.
Women — particularly low-income individuals — will have increased access to family planning services because Title X will receive $512 million per year for FY2026–FY2035, expanding clinic capacity and service availability.
Patients with positive pregnancy tests (primarily women) will receive standardized, nondirective counseling and be offered information on all pregnancy options, improving informed decision-making and patient autonomy.
Title X clinics and related hospitals/health systems can upgrade facilities and equipment with $50 million per year for infrastructure, potentially expanding capacity and improving quality of care.
Taxpayers will fund roughly $562 million per year for FY2026–FY2035, increasing federal spending over the ten-year window.
Women — especially in rural communities — may face reduced access if clinics that do not provide or refer for abortion information withdraw or decline participation, shrinking the local service network.
Hospitals, health systems and some providers may confront conflicts between mandated nondirective counseling/mandatory information provision and conscience-based objections, complicating their ability or willingness to participate in the program.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a Title X Clinic Fund and provides annual FY2026–FY2035 appropriations for Title X grants and infrastructure, with nondirective pregnancy counseling and referral requirements at funded clinics.
Provides a dedicated federal fund administered by HHS to expand and sustain clinics that deliver Title X family planning services, and supplies annual appropriations for grants, contracts, and clinic infrastructure from FY2026 through FY2035. Requires funded clinics to offer nondirective pregnancy counseling and to offer information and referrals on prenatal care, infant care/foster care/adoption, and pregnancy termination to patients with a positive pregnancy test.
Introduced April 9, 2025 by Sharice Davids · Last progress April 9, 2025