Prevention First Act
Latest action · Jan 24, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S210-214)
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.
- IntroducedJan 24, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2005 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
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 (ERISA) and 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 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.
Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act - Amends PHSA to authorize the Secretary to award grants to public and private entities to establish or expand teenage pregnancy prevention programs.
Truth in Contraception Act - Requires that any information concerning the use of a contraceptive provided through specified federally funded education programs be medically accurate and include health benefits and failure rates.
Cosponsors 25
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2005 to Jun 12, 2006; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jan 24, 2005 |
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 Jan 24, 2005 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jan 24, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S210-214)
In the Congressional Record 2
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 S6222 | Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY | Jun 8, 2005 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S111Text printed S210–S214 | Harry Reid D-NV (text) | Jan 24, 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. 109-33 | ELECTRONIC WASTE: AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT ACTIVITY, IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, AND THE PROPER FEDERAL ROLE298 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Jul 20, 2005–Sep 8, 2005 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL33728 | Emergency Contraception: Plan B Archived | Report | Aug 1, 2007 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 844 | Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2005 | Related bill | Apr 20, 2005 |
| HR 1709 | Prevention First Act | Related bill | May 13, 2005 |
Titles 9
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to expand access to preventive health care services that help reduce unintended pregnancy, reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women's health care.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Prevention First Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Truth in Contraception Act
- Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act
- Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act
- Family Planning State Empowerment Act
- Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2005
- Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act
- Emergency Contraceptive Education Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- AIDS (Disease)
- Ambulatory care
- Child development
- Child health
- Church and social problems
- Civics education
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Condoms
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer discounts
- Consumer education
- Contraceptives
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Employee health benefits
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Generic drugs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Insurance companies
- Labor and Employment
- Language and languages
- Marriage
- Medicaid
- Medical fees
- Medically uninsured
- Nonprofit organizations
- Prescription pricing
- Preventive medicine
- Public service advertising
- Rebates
- Religion
- School health programs
- School-age child care
- Service learning
- Sex
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Social Welfare
- Teenage pregnancy
- Victims of crimes
- Welfare eligibility
- Women
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2005Introduced in Senate
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