Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Bill: 109-s-1722
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-09-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption
Alcohol and women
Alcohol and youth
Authorization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child development
Child health
Child welfare
Clinics
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Demography
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Epidemiology
Families
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Human behavior
Indian medical care
Job hunting
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Mental health
Mental health services
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority health
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Native Americans
Neurology
Parent-school relationships
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Prison administration
Prisoners
Prisons
Public service advertising
Rehabilitation of criminals
Research grants
Respite care
School administration
School health programs
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex education
Social Welfare
Social work
Special education
Strategic planning
Teacher education
Teenage pregnancy
Vocational and technical education
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: 
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a research agenda for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and facilitate surveillance and prevention of such disorders.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants for individuals with FASD, including to: (1) establish programs of surveillance, prevention, and treatment for such individuals; (2) identify best practices for educating affected children, educating officials in the criminal justice system on coping with such individuals, and educating adoption or foster care agency officials about services for children with FASD; and (3) provide for transitional services for such individuals, for respite care for their caretakers, and for increased awareness and identification of FASD at health centers.
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to provide for continuation of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; and (2) the Comptroller General to evaluate and make recommendations regarding appropriate federal FASD activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue public service announcements to raise awareness of the risks associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
 
Requires the National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders to identify and describe the ten most important actions that must be taken to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and all its adverse outcomes.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to take certain actions with regard to individuals with FASD, including implementing screening procedures and introducing curricula on how to educate children with such disorders.
 
 Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to take certain actions with regard to individuals with FASD, including educating officials on how to treat such individuals, studying the inadequacies of the current system for dealing with such individuals, and developing transition programs for such individuals who are released from incarceration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9249-9250)
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10189-10193)
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Introduced in Senate