Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007
Latest action · Mar 7, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give states new options to cover: (1) low-income pregnant women; and (2) low-income legal immigrant pregnant women and children under Medicaid and SCHIP.
Extends coverage under Medicaid of prescription drugs and counseling services to tobacco cessation medications to help pregnant women enrolled in the program quit using tobacco. Requires coverage of tobacco cessation counseling services for pregnant women, and exempts such services from cost-sharing charges.
Gives states the option under Medicaid to: (1) provide family planning services and supplies to individuals with incomes that do not exceed a state's income eligibility level for medical assistance; and (2) extend the postpartum period for provision of family planning services and supplies.
Gives states the option to provide supplemental SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a demonstration program to provide payments to states for telemedicine services for the treatment of applicable individuals; (2) develop and disseminate a national set of core pediatric and perinatal quality measures; and (3) collect data regarding the extent to which states use pediatric and perinatal inpatient and outpatient quality measures on an ongoing basis.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2007 to Apr 23, 2007; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| R-IN | Richard G. Lugar | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Apr 10, 2007 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Apr 23, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Mar 7, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Mar 7, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2746 | Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jun 15, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide States with the option to expand or add coverage of pregnant women under the Medicaid and State children's health insurance programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Aliens
- Block grants
- Child health
- Cigarettes
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Contraceptives
- Dental care
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employee health benefits
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Federal aid to child health services
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health insurance
- Housing and Community Development
- Identification devices
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Infants
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Labor and Employment
- Low birth weight
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Poor children
- Pregnancy
- Pregnant women
- Prescription pricing
- Quality of care
- Rural health
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smokeless tobacco
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Telemedicine
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare waivers
- Women
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2007Introduced in Senate
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