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Latest Action: 01/09/2007 - Star Print ordered on the bill. Bill TextA bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S111) Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a National Center for Social Work Research. 1/4/2007--Introduced. National Center for Social Work Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Social Work Research as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research on social work methods and outcomes related to problems of significant social concern. Authorizes the Director of the Center to: (1) provide research training and instruction; (2) establish research traineeships and fellowships; (3) provide stipends and allowances; and (4) make grants to nonprofit institutions to provide such training, instruction, traineeships, and fellowships. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an advisory council for the Center.
Also tagged in: Academic performance, Access to health care, AIDS (Disease), Alcohol and youth, Alcoholism, Ambulatory care, Birth control, Budgets, Business, Child development, Child health, Children, Church and social problems, Citizenship education, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Communications, Community health services, Condoms, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer discounts, Consumer education, Consumers, Contraceptives, Criminal justice, Data banks, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drug abuse, Drugs, Drugs and youth, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to research, Finance, Generic drugs, Government information, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Hospital care, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Immigrant health, Immigration, Insurance companies, Labor, Language and languages, Marriage, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical research, Medical statistics, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Parent and child, Performance measurement, Politics and government, Pregnant women, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Public service advertising, Rape victims, Rebates, Religion, Research grants, School health programs, School-age child care, Science policy, Service learning, Sex, Sex education, Sexual abstinence, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Technology, Teenage pregnancy, Victims of crimes, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Women, Women's health, Women's health services, Youth services
Latest Action: 05/18/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. 2/5/2007--Introduced. Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Child welfare, Children, Executive departments, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Health surveys, Medical care, Medicine, Social surveys, State and local government, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6856-6857) Bill TextA bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on indicators of child well-being. 5/24/2007--Introduced. State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each state. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Child welfare, Children, Executive departments, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Health surveys, Medical care, Medicine, Social surveys, State and local government, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. Bill TextTo amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on indicators of child well-being. 5/24/2007--Introduced. State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each state. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.
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Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Child welfare, Children, Executive departments, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Health surveys, Medical care, Medicine, Social surveys, State and local government, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6856-6857) Bill TextA bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on indicators of child well-being. 5/24/2007--Introduced. State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each state. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Child welfare, Children, Executive departments, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Health surveys, Medical care, Medicine, Social surveys, State and local government, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. Bill TextTo amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research on indicators of child well-being. 5/24/2007--Introduced. State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each state. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.
Also tagged in: Academic performance, Access to health care, AIDS (Disease), Alcohol and youth, Alcoholism, Ambulatory care, Birth control, Budgets, Business, Child development, Child health, Children, Church and social problems, Citizenship education, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Communications, Community health services, Condoms, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer discounts, Consumer education, Consumers, Contraceptives, Criminal justice, Data banks, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drug abuse, Drugs, Drugs and youth, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to research, Finance, Generic drugs, Government information, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Hospital care, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Immigrant health, Immigration, Insurance companies, Labor, Language and languages, Marriage, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical research, Medical statistics, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Parent and child, Performance measurement, Politics and government, Pregnant women, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Public service advertising, Rape victims, Rebates, Religion, Research grants, School health programs, School-age child care, Science policy, Service learning, Sex, Sex education, Sexual abstinence, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Technology, Teenage pregnancy, Victims of crimes, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Women, Women's health, Women's health services, Youth services
Latest Action: 05/18/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. 2/5/2007--Introduced. Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Academic performance, Access to health care, AIDS (Disease), Alcohol and youth, Alcoholism, Ambulatory care, Birth control, Budgets, Business, Child development, Child health, Children, Church and social problems, Citizenship education, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Communications, Community health services, Condoms, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer discounts, Consumer education, Consumers, Contraceptives, Criminal justice, Data banks, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drug abuse, Drugs, Drugs and youth, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to research, Finance, Generic drugs, Government information, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Hospital care, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Immigrant health, Immigration, Insurance companies, Labor, Language and languages, Marriage, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical research, Medical statistics, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Parent and child, Performance measurement, Politics and government, Pregnant women, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Public service advertising, Rape victims, Rebates, Religion, Research grants, School health programs, School-age child care, Science policy, Service learning, Sex, Sex education, Sexual abstinence, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Technology, Teenage pregnancy, Victims of crimes, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Women, Women's health, Women's health services, Youth services
Latest Action: 01/09/2007 - Star Print ordered on the bill. Bill TextA bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce abortions, and improve access to women's health care. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and PHSA to prohibit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Budgets, Child abuse, Children, Chronically ill, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Criminal justice, Day care, Department of Health and Human Services, Education, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Families, Family services, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Health education, Higher education, Medical care, Medicine, Preventive medicine, Research centers, Scholarships, Science policy, Social services, Social work, Welfare, Youth violence
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S111) Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a National Center for Social Work Research. 1/4/2007--Introduced. National Center for Social Work Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Social Work Research as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research on social work methods and outcomes related to problems of significant social concern. Authorizes the Director of the Center to: (1) provide research training and instruction; (2) establish research traineeships and fellowships; (3) provide stipends and allowances; and (4) make grants to nonprofit institutions to provide such training, instruction, traineeships, and fellowships. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an advisory council for the Center.
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