14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor
Rescind the analysis restoring $200 million in Medicaid funds to California
Printed page 493 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“Rescind the legal analysis restoring $200 million in Medicaid funds to California after having been found to be in violation of the Weldon Amendment by OCR.”
What has happened
- Done
OCR's Rescission of Office for Civil Rights Documents Under Executive Order 14192, Deregulation Item 4, disavows the legal positions in the August 2021 letter by which OCR withdrew its January 2020 notice of violation against the Attorney General of California - the finding that California's abortion-coverage mandate violated the Weldon Amendment, and the finding on which California's federal health funding turned. OCR rejects each of the three grounds the 2021 letter gave and states that covered entities should not rely on the letter.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Full text read at govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-26/html/2026-01434.htm, “Deregulation Item 4: Letter Rescinding a Notice of Violation Letter Concerning California’s Violation of the Weldon Amendment Conscience Protection”.
- The notice repudiates the analysis. It does not itself disallow or recover California’s funds, which the Quote does not ask for. #1302 (withdraw Medicaid funds from states mandating abortion insurance) is recorded as not started on the ground that nothing on cms.gov mentions the Weldon Amendment or a disallowance; that remains true, and this notice is the analysis-rescission ask rather than the funding-withdrawal ask.
- Action
- rescind
- Object
- legal analysis restoring California Medicaid funds
- ID
- 1384