SMART Mom Act
Latest action · May 6, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 25, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Safe Motherhood to evaluate and coordinate Federal research and information efforts and establish and implement the national Safe Motherhood Campaign. Requires the development and maintenance of a single Internet website.
Requires expanded and intensified research activities concerning pregnancy-related illness, injury, and death and the impact of chronic conditions, physical impairments, and mental health problems on the health of women during pregnancy.
Requires the establishment of a Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit Network.
Awards research and demonstration project grants to address racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy outcomes.
Requires: (1) studies of the quality of maternal health care (from a patient's perspective) and the effects of pregnancy on women's health; and (2) surveillance of pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity data.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary to address issues concerning certain drugs and medical devices and their appropriate use by or effects on pregnant or lactating women and/or fetuses, through: (1) identification and study; (2) pharmacoepidemiological data bases; (3) biennial review and prioritization (drugs); (4) labeling; and (5) the Women's Health: Take Time to Care (or a new) program.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 25, 2002 to Sep 11, 2002, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Original | Apr 25, 2002 |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Sep 11, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 6, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 25, 2002Introduced in House
- Apr 25, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2328 | Women's Health Act of 2002 | Identical bill | Sep 17, 2002 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Biomedical engineering
- Breast feeding
- Cesarean section
- Chronically ill
- Clinical trials
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cosmetics and personal care
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Data banks
- Defective products
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse in pregnancy
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug adulteration
- Drug approvals
- Drug industry
- Drug therapy
- Drug utilization
- Drugs
- Drugs and women
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic government information
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Epidemiology
- Ethnic groups
- Families
- Family leave
- Family violence
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to maternal health services
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to medical research
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Fetus
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Human behavior
- Human fertility
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Internet
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Materials
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Mental depression
- Mental health
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Minority women
- Mortality
- Nonprofit organizations
- Obesity
- Pharmaceutical research
- Pregnancy
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Product safety
- Public service advertising
- Quality of care
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sick leave
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Stress (Psychology)
- Violence
- Warning labels
- Web sites
- Women
- Women's health
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.