Prevention First Act

Bill: 110-s-21
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Academic performance
Access to health care
Alcohol and youth
Alcoholism
Ambulatory care
Child development
Child health
Church and social problems
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Community health services
Condoms
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drugs
Drugs and youth
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 child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Hospital care
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Immigration
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Marriage
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Pregnant women
Prescription pricing
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Rebates
Religion
Research grants
School health programs
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Service learning
Sex
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Sociological research
Standards
State laws
Teenage pregnancy
Victims of crimes
Welfare eligibility
Women
Women's health
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Prevention First Act - Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for family planning services grants and contracts under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
 
 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2007 - 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 or coverage provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - 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 of 2007 - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to offer and to provide, upon request, emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
 
At-Risk Communities Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention programs. Requires the Secretary to award grants for teenage pregnancy prevention research.
 
Truth in Contraception Act of 2007 - 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.
 
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicaid's coverage of family planning services. 
 
Responsible Education About Life Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary to make grants to states for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S50-56)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate