income throughout the course of receiving the 
services. 
(3) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘‘poverty line’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 673(2) of 
the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 
9902(2)), including any revision required by such 
section. 
(c) CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.—A grant may be 
made under subsection (a) only if the applicant involved 
agrees as follows: 
(1) The program carried out under subsection 
(a) by the applicant will be designed to instill in eli-
gible families confidence in their abilities to provide 
for the health needs of their newborns, including 
through— 
(A) providing information on child develop-
ment; and 
(B) soliciting questions from the families. 
(2) The trained home visitors who make home 
visits under subsection (a) will, as needed, provide 
referrals for health and social services. 
(3) The period during which the visits will be 
available to an eligible family will not be less than 
1 year. 
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(4) An eligible family will receive no less than 
2 visits each month, with more frequent visits pro-
vided for families with high needs. 
(5) The program is proven effective on the basis 
of rigorous scientific research. 
(d) AUTHORIZED SERVICES.— 
(1) REQUIREMENTS.—A grant may be made 
under subsection (a) only if the applicant involved 
agrees that the following services will be provided by 
trained home visitors in home visits under subsection 
(a): 
(A) Research based information on child 
health and age appropriate development, includ-
ing suggestions for child-developmental activi-
ties. 
(B) Advice on parenting, including infor-
mation on how to develop a strong parent-child 
relationship and realistic expectations of age-ap-
propriate child behaviors. 
(C) Information on parenting, including 
identifying books, videos and parenting work-
shops in the local region. 
(D) Information on programs that facili-
tate parent-to-parent support services. 
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(E) Factually and medically accurate and 
complete information about contraception. 
(F) In the case of an eligible entity who is 
a student, information on resources that may 
assist the mother in completing the educational 
courses involved. 
(G) Child health and developmental screen-
ing. 
(2) ADDITIONAL
SERVICES.—A grant under 
subsection (a) may be expended to provide services 
under such subsection in addition to the services 
specified in paragraph (1). The services may in-
clude— 
(A) providing the necessary hygiene prod-
ucts for children, such as diapers, that allow a 
parent to provide for the basic needs of the 
child; or 
(B) an effort to recruit low-income preg-
nant women who are in their third trimester 
and have decided to carry their pregnancy to 
term. 
(e) LIMITATIONS
ON AUTHORIZATION
OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS.—To carry out this section, there are author-
ized to be appropriated $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, 
$250,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, $350,000,000 for fis-
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cal year 2012, $450,000,000 for fiscal year 2013, and 
$550,000,000 for fiscal year 2014. 
SEC. 1705. GRANTS TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF 
RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO NEW PARENTS. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary may make grants to 
States to increase public awareness of resources available 
to new parents. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may make a 
grant to a State under this section only if the State agrees 
to use the grant for all the following: 
(1) Identification of resources available to new 
parents. 
(2) Conducting an advertising campaign to in-
crease public awareness of the resources. 
(3) Establishing and maintaining a toll-free 
telephone line to direct people to— 
(A) adoption centers; and 
(B) organizations that provide support 
services to new parents. 
(c) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary shall prohibit each 
State receiving a grant under this section from using the 
grant to direct people to an organization or adoption cen-
ter that is operated for profit. 
(d) CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED AS CONDITION OF 
GRANT.—As a condition of providing a grant to a State 
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under this section, the Secretary shall require the State 
to certify to the Secretary that the State will— 
(1) use the grant to direct people to an organi-
zation that provides mandatory full disclosure as to 
which services and referrals the organization will or 
will not provide; and 
(2) make publicly available by means of the 
Internet (in electronic and paper form) a list of— 
(A) the resources identified by the State 
pursuant to subsection (b)(1); and 
(B) the organizations and adoption centers 
to which people are directed pursuant to an ad-
vertising campaign or telephone line funded 
under this section. 
TITLE XVIII—RESEARCH ON RE-
SPONSES 
TO 
UNINTENDED 
PREGNANCIES 
SEC. 1801. REPORT ON RESPONSES TO UNINTENDED PREG-
NANCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall enter into an 
agreement with the Institute of Medicine to study the 
range of choices women make in response to unintended 
pregnancy. The Secretary shall ensure that a report from 
the Institute describing the findings of the study is sub-
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mitted to the Congress not later than January 10, 2013. 
Names may not be collected for purposes of the study. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 
2010 through 2013. 
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