Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act
Latest action · Oct 4, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedOct 4, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Services Program to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a research agenda for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD); (2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and (3) award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to states and other entities to provide services for individuals with FASD, to educate court, law enforcement, and adoption officials on how to treat and support individuals with FASD, and to provide transitional services for individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure.
Requires: (1) the Secretary to provide for continuation of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; and (2) the Comptroller General to evaluate and make recommendations regarding appropriate federal FASD activities.
Includes within the grant program for services to individuals with FASD: (1) respite care for caretakers of such individuals, (2) recruitment and training of mentors for such individuals; and (3) educational and supportive services to families of such individuals.
Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to implement screening procedures and introduce curricula for educating children with FASD.
Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) educate officials on how to treat individuals with FASD; (2) study the inadequacies of the current system for dealing with such individuals; and (3) develop transitional programs for such individuals who are released from incarceration.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 4, 2007 to May 12, 2008, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AK | Lisa Murkowski | Original | Oct 4, 2007 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Oct 4, 2007 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Oct 4, 2007 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Oct 4, 2007 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Oct 4, 2007 |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Dec 3, 2007 | |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | Jan 24, 2008 | |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Feb 4, 2008 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Apr 2, 2008 | |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | May 12, 2008 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Oct 4, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Oct 4, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12776-12777)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6215 | Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act | Related bill | Jun 9, 2008 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Adoption
- Alcohol and women
- Alcohol and youth
- Authorization
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Child development
- Child health
- Child welfare
- Clinics
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Curricula
- Demography
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug therapy
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Epidemiology
- Families
- Family services
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to research
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health education
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Hospital care
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing subsidies
- Human behavior
- Indian medical care
- Job hunting
- Juvenile delinquency
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal education
- Maternal health services
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Mental health
- Mental health services
- Mentoring
- Minorities
- Minority health
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Native Americans
- Neurology
- Parent-school relationships
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Prison administration
- Prisoners
- Prisons
- Public service advertising
- Rehabilitation of criminals
- Research grants
- Respite care
- School administration
- School health programs
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex education
- Social Welfare
- Social work
- Special education
- Strategic planning
- Teacher education
- Teenage pregnancy
- Vocational and technical education
- Women
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
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