US Congress Senate Bill 251 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S467)
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prescribe A Book Act Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of Pediatric Early Literacy Programs, through which: health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer parents developmentally appropriate recommendations and strategies for doing so; 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 health care facilities create literacy-rich environments that include gently used books for waiting room use or volunteer readers to show parents the techniques of reading aloud to young children. Requires that the books provided to children under the programs be obtained at a discount.

Prescribe A Book Act

Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-26	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S467)

HB523 (Same As) 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/251/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s251/BILLS-114s251is.pdf