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Latest Action: 08/31/2008 - Cleared for White House. Bill TextTo establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 8/14/2008--Public Law. (There are 4 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on July 29, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 - Title I: Children's Product Safety - (Sec. 101) Treats as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) any children's product (a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger) containing more than specified amounts of lead. Allows alternate limits if the specified limits are not technologically feasible. Requires periodic review and, when technologically feasible, more stringent limits. Makes the limits inapplicable to any component that [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/07/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7345) Bill TextA bill to increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes. 4/30/2007--Introduced. Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to prevent and cure diabetes and to promote and improve the care of individuals with diabetes for the reduction of health disparities within racial and ethnic minority groups, including the African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. 5/8/2007--Introduced. Diabetes Prevention Access and Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to: (1) conduct, coordinate, and support research and other activities with respect to pre-diabetes and diabetes in minority populations; and (2) conduct and support programs to treat diabetes in minority populations. Requires the Director of NIH, through the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, to provide for: (1) health care professionals' mentoring; and (2) minority health professionals' participation in diabetes-focused [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/01/2007 - Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5435-5436) Bill TextA resolution designating April 30, 2007, as "Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans", and for other purposes. 5/1/2007--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Designates April 30, 2007, as "Dia de Los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans."
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Latest Action: 05/23/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6556-6557) Bill TextA bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to promote the adoption of children with special needs. 5/23/2007--Introduced. Adoption Equality Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for children with special needs in the adoption assistance program. Requires that the child be in the care of a public or licensed private child placement agency or Indian tribal organization pursuant to a voluntary placement agreement, relinquishment, or involuntary removal of the child from the home, where the state has determined that continuation in the home would be contrary to the child's safety or welfare. Specifies related requirements. Prohibits adoption assistance to parents with respect to a child who is not a U.S. citizen or resident, and who was adopted outside of the United States or brought into the United States for the purposes of being adopted.
Latest Action: 04/28/2008 - Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3453-3454; text of measure as passed Senate: CR S3453-3454; text of measure as introduced: CR S3448) Bill TextA resolution designating April 30, 2008, as "Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans", and for other purposes. 4/28/2008--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Designates April 30, 2008, as Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans.
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Latest Action: 04/28/2008 - Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3453-3454; text of measure as passed Senate: CR S3453-3454; text of measure as introduced: CR S3448) Bill TextA resolution designating April 30, 2008, as "Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans", and for other purposes. 4/28/2008--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Designates April 30, 2008, as Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans.
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Latest Action: 08/31/2008 - Cleared for White House. Bill TextTo establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 8/14/2008--Public Law. (There are 4 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on July 29, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 - Title I: Children's Product Safety - (Sec. 101) Treats as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) any children's product (a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger) containing more than specified amounts of lead. Allows alternate limits if the specified limits are not technologically feasible. Requires periodic review and, when technologically feasible, more stringent limits. Makes the limits inapplicable to any component that [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Budgets, Child development, Child health, Child psychology, Children, Community health services, Congressional reporting requirements, Counseling, Demography, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Family services, Federal aid to education, Government information, Governmental investigations, Health policy, Higher education, Hospital rates, Marriage counseling, Medical care, Medical education, Medical residents, Medical statistics, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, Minorities, Minority health, Pediatrics, Poor children, Psychiatric personnel, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Psychologists, Psychology, Scholarships, School health programs, Social services, Social work, Student loan funds, Students, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/07/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7345) Bill TextA bill to increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Adoption, Aliens, Child abuse, Child safety, Child welfare, Children, Criminal justice, Families, Foster home care, Immigration, Indian children, Minorities, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/23/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6556-6557) Bill TextA bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to promote the adoption of children with special needs. 5/23/2007--Introduced. Adoption Equality Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for children with special needs in the adoption assistance program. Requires that the child be in the care of a public or licensed private child placement agency or Indian tribal organization pursuant to a voluntary placement agreement, relinquishment, or involuntary removal of the child from the home, where the state has determined that continuation in the home would be contrary to the child's safety or welfare. Specifies related requirements. Prohibits adoption assistance to parents with respect to a child who is not a U.S. citizen or resident, and who was adopted outside of the United States or brought into the United States for the purposes of being adopted.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Alaska, Asian American ethnic groups, Blacks, Boundaries, Budgets, Child health, Children, Clinical trials, Clinics, College administration, Commemorations, Communications, Community health services, Congressional reporting requirements, Diabetes, Diet, Education, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Epidemiology, Exercise, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to research, Food, Genetic research, Health counseling, Health education, Health policy, Health promotion, Health surveys, Higher education, Hispanic Americans, Hospital administration, Indian education, Indian medical care, Indians, Indigenous peoples, Laboratories, Latin America, Medical care, Medical education, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical laboratories, Medical personnel, Medical research, Medical supplies, Medicine, Mentoring, Mexico, Minorities, Minorities in medicine, Minority health, Nursing homes, Nutrition, Obesity, Pacific Islanders, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Preventive medicine, Public health personnel, Public service advertising, Quality of care, Research grants, Scholarships, School administration, Science policy, Special days, Special weeks, Sports, Student loan funds, Teachers, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to prevent and cure diabetes and to promote and improve the care of individuals with diabetes for the reduction of health disparities within racial and ethnic minority groups, including the African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. 5/8/2007--Introduced. Diabetes Prevention Access and Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to: (1) conduct, coordinate, and support research and other activities with respect to pre-diabetes and diabetes in minority populations; and (2) conduct and support programs to treat diabetes in minority populations. Requires the Director of NIH, through the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, to provide for: (1) health care professionals' mentoring; and (2) minority health professionals' participation in diabetes-focused [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Budgets, Child development, Child health, Child psychology, Children, Community health services, Congressional reporting requirements, Counseling, Demography, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Family services, Federal aid to education, Government information, Governmental investigations, Health policy, Higher education, Hospital rates, Marriage counseling, Medical care, Medical education, Medical residents, Medical statistics, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, Minorities, Minority health, Pediatrics, Poor children, Psychiatric personnel, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Psychologists, Psychology, Scholarships, School health programs, Social services, Social work, Student loan funds, Students, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes. 4/30/2007--Introduced. Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/01/2007 - Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5435-5436) Bill TextA resolution designating April 30, 2007, as "Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans", and for other purposes. 5/1/2007--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Designates April 30, 2007, as "Dia de Los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans."
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