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US SB2797

HEALTHCAREINTRODUCED

Protecting Conscience in Our Health Care Act

A bill to ensure religious freedom and rights of conscience for health care workers and other government employees, and to protect health care workers and other government employees from various forms of compelled speech.

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No Federal or State government or agency, or covered entity shall: (1) require an employee to participate in a seminar, workshop, training, or other educational or professional activity, or in using a curriculum, that advocates for the idea that an individual can have an identity that is incongruent with their sex; (2) require an employee to attend or participate in an event or activity affirming, celebrating, or supporting an identity that is incongruent with an individual's sex; [...] (6) require an employee to affirm and use preferred pronouns of another, including a medical patient, without regard for whether those pronouns conflict with the employee's religious or moral beliefs, or the employee's understanding of the relationship between sex and identity; (7) require an employee to share the employee's preferred pronouns upon meeting or interacting with another individual or patient.

Legislative Session

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118th Congress

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History

DateAction
2023-09-13Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.