Pregnant Women Support Act

Bill: 109-hr-6145
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Lincoln [D-TN-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Birth defects
Block grants
Child development
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Down's syndrome
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee health benefits
Epidemiology
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Fetus
Finance and Financial Sector
Food stamps
Forensic medicine
Genetic counseling
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Health education
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Health surveys
Higher education
Home care services
Homicide
Housing and Community Development
Imaging systems in medicine
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infants
Informed consent (Medical law)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mothers
Nurses
Parent and child
Poor children
Pregnant women
Preschool education
Public service advertising
Punitive damages
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Stalking
Students
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Telephone
Victims of crimes
Vital statistics
Vocational and technical education
WIC program
Welfare eligibility
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Pregnant Women Support Act - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data.
 
 Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtained informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion, except in a medical emergency.
 
 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. 
 
 Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit 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.
 
 Allows the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women.
 
 Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions.
 
Provides for services to pregnant women and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to have a pregnant &quot;box check&quot; on homicide death certificates.
 
 Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist pregnant and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating.
 
 Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to finish high school.
 
Requires group homes for pregnant and parenting women to provide counseling on adoption and parenting skills.
 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and make refundable the tax credit for adoption expenses. 
 
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-10-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House