Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act

Bill: 109-hr-2861
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Birth defects
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
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Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to research
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health counseling
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Infant mortality
Infants
Low birth weight
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical technology
Medical tests
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nutrition
Performance measurement
Planning
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Public health
Quality of care
Quality of life
Reproduction
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking
Social Welfare
Stress (Psychology)
Technology assessment
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act or PREEMIE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and coordinate NIH research on preterm labor and delivery, infant mortality, and low birthweight infants. Establishes the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network and the Neonatal Research Units Network within NIH.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) expand and coordinate CDC activities on preterm labor and delivery and infant mortality; (2) conduct a study on the relationship between prematurity, birth defects, and developmental disabilities; and (3) review the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey.
 
Requires the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's national longitudinal study of environmental influences on children's health and development to consider the impact of assisted reproduction technologies.
 
Requires the Director of NIH to contract with the Institute of Medicine to study the health and economic consequences of preterm birth.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to assess certain core performance and outcome measures utilized under the Social Security Act for purposes of expanding such measures to include known risk factors of low birthweight and prematurity.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct a demonstration project to improve the provision of information on prematurity to health professionals and the public; (2) conduct projects to support the informational and emotional needs of families during the stay of an infant in a neonatal intensive care unit, during the transition of the infant to the home, and in the event of a newborn death; and (3) establish an Interagency Coordinating Council on Prematurity and Low Birthweight.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in House