Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Bill: 110-s-2141
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 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: 2007-10-04
text: 
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Services Program to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a research agenda for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD); (2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and (3) award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to states and other entities to provide services for individuals with FASD, to educate court, law enforcement, and adoption officials on how to treat and support individuals with FASD, and to provide transitional services for individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure.

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.

Includes within the grant program for services to individuals with FASD: (1) respite care for caretakers of such individuals, (2) recruitment and training of mentors for such individuals; and (3) educational and supportive services to families of such individuals.

Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to implement screening procedures and introduce curricula for educating children with FASD.

Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) educate officials on how to treat individuals with FASD; (2) study the inadequacies of the current system for dealing with such individuals; and (3) develop transitional programs for such individuals who are released from incarceration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12776-12777)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate