US Congress House Bill 605 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 16 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-04-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Pregnant Women Support Act - Authorizes 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. Prohibits 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. Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) higher education pregnant and parenting student services offices; and (2) 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 the Secretary to provide for comprehensive and supportive services for pregnant women, mothers, and children. 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.

Pregnant Women Support Act

Rep. Lincoln Davis [D-TN]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. John Murtha [D-PA]	Rep. James Oberstar [D-MN]	Rep. Mark Souder [R-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-04-23		Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
2009-01-20		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2009-01-16		Referred to House Agriculture
2009-01-16		Referred to House Education and Labor
2009-01-16		Referred to House Ways and Means
2009-01-16		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2009-01-16		Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB2035 (Related) 2010-06-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
SB270 (Related) 2009-01-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S621-626)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/605/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr605/BILLS-111hr605ih.pdf