Ovarian Cancer IMPACT Act
Expands ovarian cancer education and rural-care efforts and requires insurance coverage for genetic testing and indicated risk-reducing care.
In the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee since Sept. 24, 2026, 14 days after it was introduced. Most bills never leave committee.
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What the bill would do, and why it matters
Ovarian cancer can be difficult to detect, and inherited risk can affect prevention and treatment. The bill would expand public education and rural-care efforts and require health plans to cover specified genetic counseling, testing, and risk-reducing care. It would also fund demonstration projects and require reports on access and implementation.
- INTRODUCED ONLY This bill has been introduced and possibly referred to a committee, but it has not passed any vote. Most introduced bills never become law — they die in committee without a hearing.
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- Require coverage for testing and prevention
Group and individual health plans, including grandfathered plans, would have to cover specified genetic counseling and testing for people with ovarian cancer, certain people with endometrial cancer, and people with family histories suggesting elevated hereditary risk. Plans would also have to cover evidence-based early detection and risk-reducing care for people with elevated hereditary risk when guidelines indicate it.
- Expand ovarian cancer education
The national ovarian cancer awareness campaign would coordinate with relevant Health Resources and Services Administration and National Cancer Institute programs. It would provide targeted, culturally and linguistically appropriate education about hereditary risk, counseling and testing, insurance coverage, specialty care, and risk-reduction strategies.
- Support rural and Tribal access
The bill would include ovarian cancer services in certain rural health outreach and capacity-building efforts, and would add Tribal communities as eligible participants in a rural health care services grant program.
- Fund demonstration projects
The Secretary of Health and Human Services would award grants to test and evaluate outreach approaches for awareness, hereditary risk assessment, counseling and testing, and specialty care. Preference would go to applicants experienced in serving rural, medically underserved, or high-risk populations.
- Require implementation and progress reports
The Secretary would report to Congress on implementation, use of testing and risk-reducing services, rural access, and recommendations for further action. Grant reports would also identify barriers to care and best practices.
The bill cites late diagnosis, persistent gaps in access to genetic services and specialty care, and disparities affecting rural and medically underserved communities. It also says hereditary cancer syndromes can contribute to ovarian cancer risk and that counseling and testing can inform treatment, prevention, and care for at-risk family members.
The measure would combine insurance coverage requirements with public education and rural-access efforts, while setting aside an authorization of appropriations for the awareness program. Its reports would assess whether those efforts are reaching people and where barriers remain.
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The path it took, step by step
- IntroducedSEP 24, 2026SENATESEP 24, 2026By Sen. Slotkin with 1 original cosponsorReferred to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- SAME DAYNOWSenate committeeSEP 24, 2026HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, & PENSIONS NOWSEP 24, 2026In committee for 14 daysNo hearing yet
- 14 DAYS SO FARPassed the Senate—SENATE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- House committee—HOUSE—
- Passed the House—HOUSE FLOOR—Not scheduled
- Resolve differencesONLY IF NEEDEDBOTH CHAMBERSONLY IF NEEDEDSkipped if the other chamber passes the same text
- Signed into law—PRESIDENT—10 days to sign or veto
- SEP 242026SEP 24, 2026REFERREDRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- SEP 242026SEP 24, 2026INTRODUCEDSENATEIntroduced in Senate
At day 14, this bill is already older than 3% of the laws passed this Congress were when they were signed.
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Support from one state
Plus the sponsor, a Democrat. Every cosponsor is from one party.
Plus the sponsor, a Democrat. Every cosponsor is from one party.
Sen. Slotkin’s record: sponsored 30 bills this Congress. 0 passed the Senate; 0 became law.
- Katie Boyd BrittR-ALORIGINAL
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