Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act

Bill: 109-hr-6067
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2006-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Abortion
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Authorization
Birth defects
Block grants
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Communication in medicine
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Cost of living adjustments
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Day care
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Down's syndrome
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family planning and birth control
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal-state relations
Fetus
Finance and Financial Sector
Food stamps
Forensic medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Health
Health education
Health insurance
Health surveys
Hereditary diseases
Higher education
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Imaging systems in medicine
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infants
Informed consent (Medical law)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Nurses
Parent and child
Parents
Physical education and training
Poor children
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Rape
School health programs
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Service learning
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Stalking
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Telephone
Victims of crimes
Vital statistics
WIC program
Welfare eligibility
Wife abuse
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: 
Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.
 
Provides for: (1) grants to prevent teen pregnancy; and (2) a national center for parents of adolescents to support parents in preventing teen pregnancy.
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of Social Security Act to expand coverage of family planning services. 
 
Sets forth requirements for primary care clinics that receive federal financial assistance and provide abortion services.
 
Expands state options to provide health care coverage to low-income pregnant women.
 
Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2006 - Authorizes appropriations for voluntary family planning projects.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit individual health insurance coverage from excluding pregnancy as a preexisting condition.
 Provides for: (1) grants for ultrasound equipment and prenatal testing for pregnant women; and (2) programs to better identify and treat pregnant women and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist students who have decided to carry their pregnancies to term and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating. 
 
Requires the Secretary to require that federally funded group homes for pregnant and parenting women provide, upon request, adoption counseling and counseling on parenting skills.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax credit for adoption expenses; (2) make such tax credit refundable; and (3) increase the exclusion from gross income for employer-paid adoption expenses.
 
Provides for: (1) education of teen and first-time mothers through home visits by registered nurses; and (2) the collection and reporting of abortion surveillance data.


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: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Introduced in House