Prevention First Act

Bill: 109-s-20
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Child development
Child health
Church and social problems
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Community health services
Condoms
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health insurance
Hospital care
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Immigration
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Marriage
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Prescription pricing
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Rebates
Religion
School health programs
School-age child care
Service learning
Sex
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Victims of crimes
Welfare eligibility
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2005 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
 
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 (ERISA) and 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 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.
 
Preventing Teen Pregnancy Act - Amends PHSA to authorize the Secretary to award grants to public and private entities to establish or expand teenage pregnancy prevention programs.
 
Truth in Contraception Act - Requires that any information concerning the use of a contraceptive provided through specified federally funded education programs be medically accurate and include health benefits and failure rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S210-214)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate