3.0.0 3350 2023-01-15T07:47:46Z 2023-01-15T07:47:46Z House H HR 2003-10-20 108 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2003-11-14T21:33:32Z Referred to 2003-10-20T16:30:50Z Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act 108 1726 S 2003-10-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Identical bill CRS 2003-11-14 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2003-10-20 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2003-10-20 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2098) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-10-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2003-10-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress U000031 Rep. 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[D-NJ-10] DONALD PAYNE D NJ M. 10 2004-11-17 False Health Access to health care Agriculture and Food Birth defects Child development Child health Child nutrition Communicable diseases Communication in medicine Community health services Conferences Congress Congressional reporting requirements Department of Health and Human Services Disabled Drug abuse Economic research Economics and Public Finance Education Epidemiology Evaluation research (Social action programs) Executive reorganization Families Family services Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to research Fetus Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Health counseling Health education Health surveys Higher education Infant mortality Infants Low birth weight Maternal health services Medical education Medical research Medical screening Medical technology Medical tests National Institutes of Health (NIH) Nutrition Performance measurement Planning Pregnancy Pregnant women Preventive medicine Public health Quality of care Quality of life Reproduction Research centers Science, Technology, Communications Smoking Social Welfare Stress (Psychology) Technology assessment Women Women's health Health 00 2003-10-20 Introduced in House 2003-11-05T14:50:16Z Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act or the PREEMIE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to expand and coordinate research relating to preterm labor and delivery and infant mortality.

Establishes within NIH two networks: a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network and a Neonatal Research Unit Network.

Requires the Director of the CDC to study and report on the relationship between prematurity, birth defects, and developmental disabilities as well as review the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey.

Requires the Director of NIH to contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for a study on the health and economic consequences of preterm birth.

Directs the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration to assess the current national core performance and outcome measures under the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant with the goal of expanding them to include known risk factors of low birthweight and prematurity such as smoking by pregnant women.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for a demonstration project to improve the provision of information on prematurity to health professionals and other health care providers and the public.

Funds grants for projects to support the informational and emotional needs of families during the stay of an infant in a neonatal intensive care unit (nicu).

Establishes an Interagency Coordinating Council on Prematurity and Low Birthweight.

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