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Latest Action: 10/08/2008 - Signed by President. Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions. 4/21/2008--Reported to Senate amended. (There is 1 other summary) Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act - (Sec. 3) Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through either the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to authorize and oversee certain activities relating to Down syndrome or other prenatally or postnatally diagnosed conditions. Includes among such activities the awarding of grants, contracts or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to: (1) collect,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. Bill TextA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued to promote public awareness of Down syndrome. 3/21/2007--Introduced. Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend, and the United States Postal Service to issue, a commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome.
Latest Action: 01/10/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Bill TextExpressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued to promote public awareness of Down syndrome. 1/10/2007--Introduced. Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend, and the United States Postal Service to issue, a commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome.
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Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo provide for programs that reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.Provides for: (1) grants to prevent teen pregnancy; and (2) a national center for parents of adolescents to support parents in preventing teen pregnancy.Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of Social Security Act to expand coverage of family planning services. Sets forth requirements for primary care clinics that receive federal financial assistance and provide abortion services.Expands state options to provide health care coverage to low-income pregnant women.Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for voluntary family planning projects.Amends the Public [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other prenatally diagnosed conditions. 7/19/2007--Introduced. Prenatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through either the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to authorize and oversee certain activities relating to Down syndrome or other prenatally diagnosed conditions, including the awarding of grants, contracts or cooperative agreements to: (1) collect, synthesize, and disseminate current scientific information; and (2) coordinate the provision of, and access to, supportive services for patients affected, which [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Bill TextTo 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
Also tagged in: Abortion, Actions and defenses, Adoption, Authorization, Block grants, Breast feeding, Budgets, Child nutrition, Children, Civil rights, Clinics, Communications, Cost of living adjustments, Counseling, Crimes against women, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Damages, Day care, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Dropouts, Economic policy, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Family violence, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Finance, Food, Food stamps, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Health surveys, Hereditary diseases, Higher education, Homicide, Housing, Imaging systems in medicine, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Infants, Informed consent (Medical law), Maternal health services, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Nurses, Parent and child, Physical examinations, Poor children, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Public service advertising, Punitive damages, School health programs, Secondary education, Social services, Stalking, State and local government, Student housing, Tax credits, Tax refunds, Taxation, Technology, Teenage pregnancy, Victims of crimes, Violence, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, WIC program, Women
Latest Action: 12/13/2007 - Star Print ordered on on the bill. Bill TextA bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. 12/4/2007--Introduced. Pregnant Women Support Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents. Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women. 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. Provides for continuation coverage for newborns. Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage [...] show full description
Latest Action: 11/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextSupporting the goals and ideals of Down Syndrome Awareness Month. 10/23/2007--Introduced. Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Urges Congress to work with health care providers and advocacy organizations to encourage awareness and education regarding Down syndrome.
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Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate by Unanimous Consent. Bill TextA bill to advance America's priorities. 7/22/2008--Introduced. Advancing America's Priorities Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) establish a system to collect data on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and establish a registry for such data; (2) provide for an education and information campaign to promote stroke prevention; and (3) award grants for a pilot project to improve stroke patient outcomes by coordinating health care delivery through telehealth networks.Establishes programs for research, rehabilitation, and quality of life for people with paralysis.Provides for support services to women suffering from postpartum depression and who receive a positive diagnosis of Down syndrome or other prenatally or postnatally diagnosed conditions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states to provide vision care for children. Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to expand services for homeless youth [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate by Unanimous Consent. Bill TextA bill to advance America's priorities. 7/22/2008--Introduced. Advancing America's Priorities Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) establish a system to collect data on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and establish a registry for such data; (2) provide for an education and information campaign to promote stroke prevention; and (3) award grants for a pilot project to improve stroke patient outcomes by coordinating health care delivery through telehealth networks.Establishes programs for research, rehabilitation, and quality of life for people with paralysis.Provides for support services to women suffering from postpartum depression and who receive a positive diagnosis of Down syndrome or other prenatally or postnatally diagnosed conditions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states to provide vision care for children. Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to expand services for homeless youth [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 12/13/2007 - Star Print ordered on on the bill. Bill TextA bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. 12/4/2007--Introduced. Pregnant Women Support Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents. Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women. 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. Provides for continuation coverage for newborns. Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage [...] show full description
Latest Action: 11/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextSupporting the goals and ideals of Down Syndrome Awareness Month. 10/23/2007--Introduced. Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Urges Congress to work with health care providers and advocacy organizations to encourage awareness and education regarding Down syndrome.
Also tagged in: Abortion, Actions and defenses, Adoption, Authorization, Block grants, Breast feeding, Budgets, Child nutrition, Children, Civil rights, Clinics, Communications, Cost of living adjustments, Counseling, Crimes against women, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Damages, Day care, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Dropouts, Economic policy, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Family violence, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Finance, Food, Food stamps, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Health education, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health policy, Health surveys, Hereditary diseases, Higher education, Homicide, Housing, Imaging systems in medicine, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Infants, Informed consent (Medical law), Maternal health services, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Nurses, Parent and child, Physical examinations, Poor children, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Public service advertising, Punitive damages, School health programs, Secondary education, Social services, Stalking, State and local government, Student housing, Tax credits, Tax refunds, Taxation, Technology, Teenage pregnancy, Victims of crimes, Violence, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, WIC program, Women
Latest Action: 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Bill TextTo 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
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Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other prenatally diagnosed conditions. 7/19/2007--Introduced. Prenatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through either the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to authorize and oversee certain activities relating to Down syndrome or other prenatally diagnosed conditions, including the awarding of grants, contracts or cooperative agreements to: (1) collect, synthesize, and disseminate current scientific information; and (2) coordinate the provision of, and access to, supportive services for patients affected, which [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Adoption, Birth defects, Budgets, Child development, Children, Civil liberties, Communication in medicine, Communication in science, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Data banks, Directories, Electronic government information, Epidemiology, Families, Family services, Fetus, Genetic counseling, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Health counseling, Health education, Health information systems, Health policy, Health surveys, Hereditary diseases, Imaging systems in medicine, Informed consent (Medical law), Internet, Law, Life expectancy, Maternal health services, Medical care, Medical records, Medical screening, Medical statistics, Medical tests, Medicine, Patients' rights, Quality of life, Right of privacy, Science policy, Technology, Telecommunication, Telephone, Vital statistics, Web sites
Latest Action: 10/08/2008 - Signed by President. Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other prenatally and postnatally diagnosed conditions. 4/21/2008--Reported to Senate amended. (There is 1 other summary) Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act - (Sec. 3) Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through either the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to authorize and oversee certain activities relating to Down syndrome or other prenatally or postnatally diagnosed conditions. Includes among such activities the awarding of grants, contracts or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to: (1) collect,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. Bill TextA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued to promote public awareness of Down syndrome. 3/21/2007--Introduced. Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend, and the United States Postal Service to issue, a commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome.
Also tagged in: Abortion, Adoption, Aid to dependent children, Authorization, Birth control, Birth defects, Block grants, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Child nutrition, Child welfare, Children, Civil rights, Clinics, Communication in medicine, Communications, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Contraceptives, Cost of living adjustments, Counseling, Criminal justice, Criminal justice information, Day care, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Economic policy, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Elementary and secondary education, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Executive departments, Families, Family services, Family violence, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to housing, Federal aid to Indians, Federal-state relations, Fetus, Finance, Food, Food stamps, Forensic medicine, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Grants-in-aid, Group homes, Health education, Health insurance, Health policy, Health surveys, Hereditary diseases, Higher education, Home care services, Housing, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Imaging systems in medicine, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Indians, Infants, Informed consent (Medical law), Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Law, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical records, Medical research, Medical statistics, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Minorities, Nonprofit organizations, Nurses, Parent and child, Parents, Physical education and training, Poor children, Pregnant women, Preventive medicine, Public service advertising, Rape, Rape victims, School health programs, School-age child care, Science policy, Service learning, Sex education, Sexual abstinence, Social services, Sports, Stalking, State and local government, Tax credits, Tax refunds, Taxation, Teenage pregnancy, Telecommunication, Telephone, Victims of crimes, Vital statistics, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, WIC program, Women, Youth services
Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo provide for programs that reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.Provides for: (1) grants to prevent teen pregnancy; and (2) a national center for parents of adolescents to support parents in preventing teen pregnancy.Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of Social Security Act to expand coverage of family planning services. Sets forth requirements for primary care clinics that receive federal financial assistance and provide abortion services.Expands state options to provide health care coverage to low-income pregnant women.Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for voluntary family planning projects.Amends the Public [...] show full description
Latest Action: 01/10/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Bill TextExpressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued to promote public awareness of Down syndrome. 1/10/2007--Introduced. Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend, and the United States Postal Service to issue, a commemorative postage stamp to promote public awareness of Down syndrome.
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