Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion Act

Bill: 113-s-144
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2013-01-24
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding

Teenage pregnancy

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize additional funding for FY2014-FY2019 for the Pregnancy Assistance Fund for grants to states to assist pregnant and parenting teens and women.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 144 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2013 Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize additional funding for the pregnancy assistance fund.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion Act . 2. Additional funding for the Pregnancy Assistance Fund Section 10214 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18204 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: In addition to amounts authorized to be appropriated in the previous sentence, there are authorized to be appropriated to carry out section 10210, an additional $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2019. .