Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion Act

Bill: 114-s-221
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2015-01-21
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding

Teenage pregnancy

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2015-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize additional funding for FY2016-FY2019 for the Pregnancy Assistance Fund for grants to states to assist pregnant and parenting teens and women.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 221 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 21, 2015 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 2016 through 2019. .