MO HCR41

Expresses Missouri General Assembly's opposition to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) contraception coverage mandate requiring health insurers to provide preventive services including contraception and sterilization without co-pay beginning August 1, 2012.

Asserts that the federal mandate violates Missouri's Section 1.330, RSMo (Proposition C, adopted by referendum on August 3, 2010), which prohibits compulsion of any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.

States the federal mandate forces religious organizations, churches, and religious hospitals to choose between providing contraception coverage or paying PPACA penalties, thereby violating religious liberty protections and conscience rights.

Affirms Missouri's right under the Tenth Amendment to enact laws prohibiting unconstitutional federal intrusion into state matters and urges Missouri's Congressional delegation to express opposition to the regulation to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Directs the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives to send copies of this resolution to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and each member of Missouri's Congressional delegation.