S 1172 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Johanna's Law

Introduced Jun 6, 2005 Originated Senate Sponsor Arlen Specter D-PA

Latest action · Jun 6, 2005 Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6110)

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.

IntroducedJun 6, 2005
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005 or Johanna's Law - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a national campaign to increase the awareness and knowledge of women with respect to gynecologic cancers, which shall include: (1) maintaining a supply of written materials to provide information to the public on gynecologic cancers; and (2) developing and placing public service announcements to encourage women to discuss their risks of gynecologic cancers with their physicians.

Requires the Secretary to award grants to nonprofit private entities to test different outreach and education strategies for increasing such awareness among women and health professionals.

Cosponsors 45

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 6, 2005 to Dec 7, 2006; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-IL	Barack Obama	Original	Jun 6, 2005
D-CA	Barbara Boxer	Original	Jun 6, 2005
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Original	Jun 6, 2005
D-IA	Tom Harkin	Original	Jun 6, 2005
R-VA	George Allen		Jun 8, 2005
D-NJ	Jon S. Corzine		Jun 14, 2005
R-MO	Jim Talent		Jun 15, 2005
D-MA	John F. Kerry		Jun 20, 2005
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer		Jun 30, 2005
D-WA	Maria Cantwell		Jul 14, 2005
D-NJ	Frank R. Lautenberg		Jul 19, 2005
D-WA	Patty Murray		Jul 19, 2005
R-IN	Richard G. Lugar		Jul 19, 2005
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu		Jul 21, 2005
D-MD	Paul S. Sarbanes		Jul 21, 2005
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy		Jul 25, 2005
R-ME	Olympia J. Snowe		Jul 25, 2005
R-ME	Susan M. Collins		Jul 25, 2005
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski		Jul 26, 2005
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow		Jul 27, 2005
R-RI	Lincoln Chafee		Jul 27, 2005
D-SD	Tim Johnson		Sep 14, 2005
D-CA	Dianne Feinstein		Sep 19, 2005
D-IN	Evan Bayh		Sep 21, 2005
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		Sep 26, 2005
R-VT	James M. Jeffords		Sep 28, 2005
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin		Oct 6, 2005
I-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman		Oct 27, 2005
D-CT	Christopher J. Dodd		Nov 15, 2005
D-FL	Bill Nelson		Jan 30, 2006
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Jan 30, 2006
R-NE	Chuck Hagel		Feb 6, 2006
D-MN	Mark Dayton		Feb 6, 2006
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		Feb 9, 2006
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln		Mar 2, 2006
D-RI	Jack Reed		Mar 7, 2006
D-MI	Carl Levin		Apr 27, 2006
R-OH	Mike DeWine		Jun 22, 2006
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy		Sep 14, 2006
D-DE	Thomas R. Carper		Sep 20, 2006
R-AL	Jeff Sessions		Sep 25, 2006
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman		Sep 28, 2006
D-DE	Joseph R. Biden Jr.		Nov 14, 2006
D-AR	Mark L. Pryor		Nov 14, 2006
R-UT	Orrin G. Hatch		Dec 7, 2006

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee	Referred Jun 6, 2005

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 6, 2005Introduced in Senate
Jun 6, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6109)
Jun 6, 2005Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6110)

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
Senate	Debate and remarks S6109, S6110Text printed S6110	Arlen Specter D-PA (text), Barack Obama D-IL	Jun 6, 2005

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 109-3	CHILD INTERSTATE ABORTION NOTIFICATION ACT80 pages	Judiciary Committee	Mar 3, 2005

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1245	Johanna's Law	Identical bill	Jan 12, 2007

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to provide for programs to increase the awareness and knowledge of women and health care providers with respect to gynecologic cancers.
Short Titles as Introduced: Johanna's Law; Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 6, 2005Introduced in Senate

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