S 393 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Prescribe A Book Act

Introduced Feb 17, 2011 Originated Senate Sponsor Jack Reed D-RI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 17, 2011 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S889)

Progress

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  1. IntroducedFeb 17, 2011
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children.

Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.

Cosponsors 21

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 17, 2011 to Oct 5, 2011, with 9 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalFeb 17, 2011
R-IAChuck GrassleyOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-MIDebbie StabenowOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-NJFrank R. LautenbergOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-MAJohn F. KerryOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-AKMark BegichOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-CTRichard BlumenthalOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-RISheldon WhitehouseOriginalFeb 17, 2011
R-MESusan M. CollinsOriginalFeb 17, 2011
D-NHJeanne ShaheenMar 17, 2011
D-VTPatrick J. LeahyMar 17, 2011
D-WAPatty MurrayMar 17, 2011
D-NJRobert MenendezMar 17, 2011
D-NMTom UdallMar 31, 2011
D-ILRichard J. DurbinApr 13, 2011
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 17, 2011Introduced in Senate
  2. Feb 17, 2011Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S889)
  3. Feb 17, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S888-889)

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 820Prescribe A Book ActIdentical billMar 4, 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

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  1. Feb 17, 2011Introduced in Senate

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