Prevention First Act
Latest action · Jan 9, 2007 Star Print ordered on the bill.
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 4, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - 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 or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market.
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - 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 of 2007 - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
At-Risk Communities Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention programs. Requires the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention research.
Truth in Contraception Act of 2007 - 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.
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicaid's coverage of family planning services.
Responsible Education About Life Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary to make grants to states for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Cosponsors 34
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 4, 2007 to Apr 24, 2008; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Jan 11, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Jan 12, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Jan 17, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Jan 23, 2007 | |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Jan 23, 2007 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Feb 12, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Feb 14, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | Feb 16, 2007 | |
| D-MT | Max Baucus | Feb 26, 2007 | |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Mar 12, 2007 | |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Mar 12, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Mar 13, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Mar 21, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Apr 10, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Apr 12, 2007 | |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Apr 20, 2007 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | May 3, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | May 14, 2007 | |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Jun 21, 2007 | |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-VA | Jim Webb | Apr 24, 2008 |
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 4, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2007Star Print ordered on the bill.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 4, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S50-56)
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 S247 | Bill Nelson D-FL | Jan 9, 2007 |
| Senate | Text printed S50–S56 | — | Jan 4, 2007 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL33728 | Emergency Contraception: Plan B Archived | Report | Aug 1, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 819 | Prevention First Act | Identical bill | May 18, 2007 |
Titles 10
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 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
- Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007
- At-Risk Communities Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2007
- Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act of 2007
- Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007
- Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007
- Truth in Contraception Act of 2007
- Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007
- Responsible Education About Life Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Academic performance
- Access to health care
- AIDS (Disease)
- Alcohol and youth
- Alcoholism
- Ambulatory care
- Child development
- Child health
- Church and social problems
- Civics education
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Condoms
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer discounts
- Consumer education
- Contraceptives
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Data banks
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drug abuse
- Drugs
- Drugs and youth
- 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 child health services
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Generic drugs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Insurance companies
- Labor and Employment
- Language and languages
- Marriage
- Medicaid
- Medical fees
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Nonprofit organizations
- Parent and child
- Performance measurement
- Pregnant women
- Prescription pricing
- Preventive medicine
- Public service advertising
- Rebates
- Religion
- Research grants
- School health programs
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service learning
- Sex
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social Welfare
- Sociological research
- Standards
- State laws
- Teenage pregnancy
- Victims of crimes
- Welfare eligibility
- Women
- Women's health
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
