Signed by Governor Charlie Baker

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funding to family planning and women's reproductive health clinics.

Highlights:

• Appropriates the following funds to ensure the continuity of clinical family planning services, education and counseling, physical exams, provision of contraceptive methods with an emphasis on services that reduce barriers to care, sexually-transmitted disease testing and treatment, HIV testing and reproductive cancer screening services provided through the Federal Title X program that supports clinical family planning services with a focus on serving clients under 250 percent of the federal level (Sec. 2A);

• Up to $800,000 to the Department of Public Health;

• Up to $428,500 to be made available to Action for Boston Community Development; and

• Up to $375,750 to Health Imperatives.

• Requires that the funds be used to ensure the continuity of the current level of funding for eligible entities to address deficiencies in federal Title X funding (Sec. 2A).

• Appropriates an additional $8,000,000 at the end of fiscal year 2019 and to be expended through June 30, 2020, to ensure that changes in federal policy and funding levels do not adversely affect the health of the commonwealth’s citizens or limit effective family planning (Sec. 2A).

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