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To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. 7/26/2007--Introduced. Pregnant Women Support Act - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data. Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtained informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion. Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage to an unborn child. Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a health insurance issuer offering individual coverage from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion or a waiting period or otherwise discriminating against a woman on the basis that she is pregnant. Allows the Secretary to make grants [...] show full description
- 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- 04/25/2008 - Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- 09/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
show all actions- 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- 04/25/2008 - Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- 09/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to House Agriculture
- 07/26/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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