Pregnant Women Support Act
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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.
- IntroducedJul 26, 2007
- 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.
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 who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to require a pregnancy determination for homicide victims.
Requires the Secretary to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women and new parents.
Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices.
Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete 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 38
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 26, 2007 to Sep 23, 2008; 35 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WV | Alan B. Mollohan | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-FL | Allen Boyd | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-MI | Bart Stupak | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-LA | Charlie Melancon | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-OK | Dan Boren | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| R-CO | Doug Lamborn | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| R-CA | Duncan Hunter | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-MS | Gene Taylor | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-NC | Heath Shuler | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Original | Jul 26, 2007 |
Withdrew 1 Zoe Lofgren D-CA Jun 20, 2008
Committees 4
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 Jul 26, 2007 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jul 26, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jul 26, 2007 |
| Work and Welfare Subcommittee | Referred Jul 31, 2007 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jul 26, 2007 |
| Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee | Referred Sep 19, 2007 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jul 26, 2007 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 25, 2008 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Apr 25, 2008Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Sep 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- Jul 31, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
- Jul 26, 2007Introduced in House
- Jul 26, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Agriculture, 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.
- Jul 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2407 | Pregnant Women Support Act | Related bill | Dec 13, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Pregnant Women Support Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Adoption
- Agriculture and Food
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Breast feeding
- Child nutrition
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Cost of living adjustments
- Counseling
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crimes against women
- Criminal investigation
- Damages
- Day care
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Down's syndrome
- Dropouts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food stamps
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health surveys
- Hereditary diseases
- Higher education
- Homicide
- Housing and Community Development
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Infants
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Maternal health services
- Medically uninsured
- Nurses
- Parent and child
- Physical examinations
- Poor children
- Pregnancy
- Pregnant women
- Public service advertising
- Punitive damages
- School health programs
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Stalking
- Student housing
- Tax credits
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Teenage pregnancy
- Victims of crimes
- Violence
- Welfare eligibility
- WIC program
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 26, 2007Introduced in House
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