Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate

Research notes

• The object of this ask was already in the asked-for state when the window opened, in the same way as #1314. The exemptions have stood since 2018; the Biden-era proposal that would have narrowed them died as a proposed rule.
• Confirmed on review 2026-09-01, Already-true flag kept. The Already-true rule names this item by number. Its verb is “restore” and its second sentence is conditional on a finalization that never happened — an action ask, not a preserve, continue or refrain-from ask — so the rule’s exclusion of those asks does not reach it, and neither limb leaves anything outstanding: there is nothing to rescind and nothing to restore.
• Negative searches run 2026-08-27: Federal Register full-text “Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act” (HHS, since 2025-01-20) — 6 documents, all of them Paperwork Reduction Act information-collection notices for the existing exemption/accommodation forms (2025-04-28, 2025-12-10, 2026-01-21, 2026-06-02) plus the 2027 Benefit and Payment Parameters proposed and final rules; “contraceptive coverage exemption” — 0 documents; “moral exemption” — 0 documents; “Religious Exemptions” (HHS) — 3 documents, none a contraceptive-mandate rulemaking. No withdrawal notice for the 2023 proposed rule was published in the window either.
• Adjacent but different objects, not cited here: HHS OCR rescinded its 2021 Church Amendments guidance (2026-01-26) and disavowed a set of other OCR documents under Executive Order 14192 the same day. Those are conscience-protection guidance, not the contraceptive-coverage exemption rules.
• Checked 2026-09-06, in a review of every Already-true flag: flag stands, and the reversal question was re-measured. Undoing this object would mean an in-window rulemaking narrowing or revoking 45 CFR 147.132 and 147.133, so the negative was re-run on 2026-09-06: Federal Register API, a search for “147.132”, type RULE, published on or after 2025-01-20 - 0 documents; “religious exemption contraceptive”, type RULE, same floor - 1 document, an unrelated DHS public charge rule. The 2018 exemptions stand and the 2023 proposed rule is still unfinalized, so both limbs of this conditional ask are where they were on 2025-01-20. Nothing happened inside the window in either direction.