Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act
Latest action · Jun 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 15, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.
Provides for: (1) grants to prevent teen pregnancy; and (2) a national center for parents of adolescents to support parents in preventing teen pregnancy.
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of Social Security Act to expand coverage of family planning services.
Sets forth requirements for primary care clinics that receive federal financial assistance and provide abortion services.
Expands state options to provide health care coverage to low-income pregnant women.
Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for voluntary family planning projects.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit individual health insurance coverage from excluding pregnancy as a preexisting condition.
Provides for: (1) grants for ultrasound equipment and prenatal testing for pregnant women; and (2) programs to better identify and treat pregnant women and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist students who have decided to carry their pregnancies to term and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating.
Requires the Secretary to require that federally funded group homes for pregnant and parenting women provide, upon request, adoption counseling and counseling on parenting skills.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax credit for adoption expenses; (2) make such tax credit refundable; and (3) increase the exclusion from gross income for employer-paid adoption expenses.
Provides for: (1) education of teen and first-time mothers through home visits by registered nurses; and (2) the collection and reporting of abortion surveillance data.
Cosponsors 40
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2007 to Sep 27, 2008; 25 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-WI | David R. Obey | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-PA | Patrick J. Murphy | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-SD | Stephanie Herseth Sandlin | Original | Feb 15, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Feb 27, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Feb 27, 2007 | |
| D-IN | Baron P. Hill | Mar 26, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Mar 26, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | May 1, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | May 8, 2007 | |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | Nov 13, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Nick Lampson | Nov 13, 2007 | |
| D-AL | Artur Davis | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-OH | Betty Sutton | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-FL | Kendrick B. Meek | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Mar 12, 2008 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | May 7, 2008 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Sep 27, 2008 |
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 Feb 15, 2007 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 16, 2007 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 15, 2007 |
| Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 15, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- Feb 16, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 15, 2007Introduced in House
- Feb 15, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL34388 | Child Welfare Issues in the 110th Congress Archived | Report | Jun 17, 2008 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for programs that reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Abortion
- Adoption
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Authorization
- Birth defects
- Block grants
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Child welfare
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Communication in medicine
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Contraceptives
- Cost of living adjustments
- Counseling
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal justice information
- Day care
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Down's syndrome
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Elementary and secondary education
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Family services
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal-state relations
- Fetus
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food stamps
- Forensic medicine
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Group homes
- Health
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Health surveys
- Hereditary diseases
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Housing and Community Development
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Infants
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Law
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nurses
- Parent and child
- Parents
- Physical education and training
- Poor children
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Public service advertising
- Rape
- School health programs
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service learning
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Stalking
- Tax credits
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Teenage pregnancy
- Telephone
- Victims of crimes
- Vital statistics
- Welfare eligibility
- WIC program
- Women
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2007Introduced in House
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