Putting Prevention First Act

Bill: 108-s-2336
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Alcohol and youth
Authorization
Child development
Child health
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Ethnic relations
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health insurance
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrants
Immigration
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Lifestyle
Marriage
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical fees
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Patients' rights
Prescription pricing
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Rebates
Religion
School health programs
Service learning
Sex
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexual orientation
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Social life and customs
State laws
Teenage pregnancy
Victims of crimes
Welfare eligibility
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: 
Putting Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2004 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Services Act.
 
Family Planning State Empowerment Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow States to provide family planning services and supplies to certain individuals not otherwise eligible for Medicaid.
 
 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from excluding or restricting benefits in any way for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Amends the PHSA to apply those prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 
Emergency Contraception Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and disseminate information on emergency contraception to the public and to health care providers. 
 
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving Federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
 
Family Life Education Act - Requires the Secretary to make grants to States for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act - Amends the PHSA to authorize the Secretary to award grants to public and private entities to establish or expand teenage pregnancy prevention programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4311-4315)
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4309-4311)
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate