Pregnant Women Support Act
Latest action · Dec 13, 2007 Star Print ordered on 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.
- IntroducedDec 4, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Pregnant Women Support Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women.
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.
Provides for continuation coverage for newborns.
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.
Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtain informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion.
Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions.
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.
Authorizes grants 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 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.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program).
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.
Authorizes grants to provide to eligible mothers education on the health needs of their infants through visits to their homes by registered nurses.
Authorizes grants for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 28, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NE | Ben Nelson | Apr 28, 2008 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 13, 2007Star Print ordered on on the bill.
- Dec 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Dec 4, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Dec 4, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14743-14745)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3192 | Pregnant Women Support Act | Related bill | Apr 25, 2008 |
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.
- Dec 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
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