Pregnant Women Support Act
Latest action · Nov 2, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
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.
- IntroducedSep 21, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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, except in a medical emergency.
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 for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women.
Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions.
Provides for services to pregnant women and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to have a pregnant "box check" on homicide death certificates.
Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist pregnant and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating.
Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to finish high school.
Requires group homes for pregnant and parenting women to provide counseling on adoption and parenting skills.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and make refundable the tax credit for adoption expenses.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.
Cosponsors 27
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 21, 2006 to Dec 5, 2006, with 26 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WV | Alan B. Mollohan | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-FL | Allen Boyd | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-MS | Gene Taylor | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-IL | Jerry F. Costello | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-GA | Jim Marshall | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-GA | John Barrow | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Nov 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Oct 13, 2006Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Oct 3, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Oct 2, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Adoption
- Agriculture and Food
- Authorization
- Birth defects
- Block grants
- Child development
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Communication in medicine
- Compensatory education
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost of living adjustments
- Counseling
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Damages
- Day care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Justice
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Down's syndrome
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee health benefits
- Epidemiology
- Families
- Family services
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to housing
- Fetus
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food stamps
- Forensic medicine
- Genetic counseling
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Group homes
- Health
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Health insurance continuation
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Homicide
- Housing and Community Development
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Infants
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal fees
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Mothers
- Nurses
- Parent and child
- Poor children
- Pregnant women
- Preschool education
- Public service advertising
- Punitive damages
- Rape
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Stalking
- Students
- Tax credits
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Teenage pregnancy
- Telephone
- Victims of crimes
- Vital statistics
- Vocational and technical education
- Welfare eligibility
- WIC program
- Wife abuse
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 21, 2006Introduced in House
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