US Congress Senate Bill 393 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-2-1)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S889)
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Prescribe A Book Act

Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Daniel Akaka [D-HI]	Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-17	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S889)
2011-02-17	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S888-889)

HB820 (Same As) 2011-03-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/393/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s393/BILLS-112s393is.pdf