Putting Prevention First Act
Latest action · May 7, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
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 21, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Putting Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2004 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Services Act.
Family Planning State Empowerment Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow States to provide family planning services and supplies to certain individuals not otherwise eligible for Medicaid.
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act (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 provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Amends the PHSA to apply those prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market.
Emergency Contraception Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and disseminate information on emergency contraception to the public and to health care providers.
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving Federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
Family Life Education Act - Requires the Secretary to make grants to States for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act - Amends the PHSA to authorize the Secretary to award grants to public and private entities to establish or expand teenage pregnancy prevention programs.
Cosponsors 130
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 21, 2004 to Oct 8, 2004; 76 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-WA | Brian Baird | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Calvin M. Dooley | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OR | David Wu | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-GA | Denise L. Majette | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| R-PA | James C. Greenwood | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Jane Harman | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-WA | Jay Inslee | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-PA | Joseph M. Hoeffel | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MO | Karen McCarthy | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| R-CT | Nancy L. Johnson | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Nancy Pelosi | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| R-CT | Rob Simmons | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Original | Apr 21, 2004 |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Chris Bell | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-MN | Martin Olav Sabo | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Nick Lampson | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | Apr 22, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-WI | Gerald D. Kleczka | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Apr 28, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | May 6, 2004 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | May 6, 2004 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | May 6, 2004 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | May 6, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | May 6, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | May 17, 2004 | |
| D-HI | Ed Case | May 17, 2004 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | May 17, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | May 17, 2004 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | May 17, 2004 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 3, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Robert T. Matsui | Jun 3, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Tom Lantos | Jun 3, 2004 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Jun 25, 2004 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Jun 25, 2004 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Jun 25, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Jul 15, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Jul 15, 2004 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Jul 20, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-MA | Martin T. Meehan | Sep 7, 2004 | |
| D-TX | Ciro D. Rodriguez | Sep 15, 2004 | |
| D-CA | Howard L. Berman | Sep 15, 2004 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | Sep 22, 2004 | |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Oct 8, 2004 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Apr 21, 2004 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 6, 2004 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Apr 21, 2004 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred May 7, 2004 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Apr 21, 2004 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 27, 2004 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 7, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- May 6, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 27, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 21, 2004Introduced in House
- Apr 21, 2004Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E580 | Danny K. Davis D-IL | Apr 21, 2004 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2336 | Putting Prevention First Act | Identical bill | Apr 22, 2004 |
Titles 9
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To expand access to preventive health care services and education programs that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce infection with sexually transmitted disease, and reduce the number of abortions.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Putting Prevention First Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act
- Emergency Contraception Education Act
- Family Planning State Empowerment Act
- Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2004
- Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act
- Family Life Education Act
- Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- AIDS (Disease)
- Alcohol and youth
- Authorization
- Child development
- Child health
- Church and social problems
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer discounts
- Consumer education
- Contraceptives
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drugs
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Employee health benefits
- Ethnic relations
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal preemption
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Generic drugs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Insurance companies
- Labor and Employment
- Lifestyle
- Marriage
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical fees
- Minorities
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent and child
- Patients' rights
- Prescription pricing
- Preventive medicine
- Public service advertising
- Rebates
- Religion
- School health programs
- Service learning
- Sex
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Sexual orientation
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social life and customs
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Teenage pregnancy
- Victims of crimes
- Welfare eligibility
- Women
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 21, 2004Introduced in House
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