NEWS: HHS is proposing a rule that removes regulatory burdens on religious organizations and ensures that religious and non-religious organizations are treated equally in HHS-supported programs.
Today, January 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a rule that implements President Trump’s Executive Order No. 13831 , removes regulatory burdens on religious organizations, and ensures that religious and non-religious organizations are treated equally in HHS-supported programs. The proposed rule ensures that HHS-supported social service programs are implemented in a manner consistent with the Constitution and other applicable federal law.
Under current regulations that govern HHS-supported programs, religious providers of social services—but not other providers of social services—must make referrals under certain circumstances to alternative service providers and must post notices regarding this referral procedure. These regulatory burdens had been required by then-President Obama’s Executive Order No. 13559 . Consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order No.
In addition, the proposed rule will clarify that religious organizations may apply for awards on the same basis as any other organization and that when HHS selects award recipients, HHS will not discriminate based on an organization’s religious character.
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