1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Access to Contraception for Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Women are serving in the Armed Forces at increasing rates, playing a critical role in the national security of the United States. Women comprise more than 17 percent of members of the Armed Forces, and as of 2018 nearly 350,000 women serve on active duty in the Armed Forces or in the Selected Reserve. (2) Ninety-five percent of women serving in the Armed Forces are of reproductive age. And as of 2017, more than 700,000 female spouses and dependents of active duty members are of reproductive age. (3) The TRICARE program covered 1,563,727 women of reproductive age in 2017, including female spouses and dependents of active duty members. (4) The benefits of contraception are widely recognized and include improved health and well-being, reduced global maternal mortality, health benefits of pregnancy spacing for maternal and child health, and women’s greater educational and professional opportunities and increased lifetime earnings. (5) Studies have shown that when cost barriers to the full range of methods of contraception are eliminated, and women receive comprehensive counseling on the various methods of contraception (including highly effective and more expensive long-acting reversible contraceptives), rates of unintended pregnancy decline. (6) Research has also shown that investments in effective contraception save public and private dollars. (7) In order to fill gaps in coverage and access to preventive care critical for women’s health, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) requires all non-grandfathered individual and group health plans to cover without cost-sharing preventive services, including a set of evidence-based preventive services for women supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. These women’s preventive services include the full range of