Legislation

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Legislation to reauthorize a U.S. government body monitoring international religious freedom took a procedural step forward in the U.S. House July 10. The same week in …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., criticized funding legislation recently passed by the U.S. House as …

(OSV News) — Public school classrooms in Louisiana will now be required to display the Ten Commandments by the start of 2025 as part of a new educational reform law …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Legislation to protect access to contraception nationwide failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on June 5 in an expected outcome. A procedural vote to advance …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Senate June 4 held a hearing on the impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions, with lawmakers alternately criticizing or defending them with respect to women’s health …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Senate Democrats failed to advance a bipartisan border security bill May 23 for the second time in a matter of months. The same week, top law …

(OSV News) — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation May 9 that revives an effort to block Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Biden administration issued a new regulation to shield the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion …

ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) — A bill recently signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been described by a farmworker advocate as “inhumane” and draconian. DeSantis, who usually …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A bipartisan coalition in the House, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., moved to advance a $95 billion package providing aid for Ukraine, Israel and …