3.0.0 1726 2023-01-15T08:03:20Z 2023-01-15T08:03:20Z Senate S S 2003-10-14 108 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-10-14T22:53:36Z PREEMIE Act 108 3350 HR 2003-11-14 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2003-10-14 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2003-10-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN N D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2003-10-14 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2003-10-16 False B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2003-10-16 False C001042 Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ] JON CORZINE D NJ S. 2003-10-27 False L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. 2003-10-27 False L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2003-10-27 False L000504 Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] RICHARD LUGAR R IN GREEN 2003-10-27 False H000725 Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC] ERNEST HOLLINGS D SC FREDERICK 2003-10-27 False B000382 Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT] ROBERT BENNETT R UT F. 2003-10-27 False H001028 Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE] CHUCK HAGEL R NE 2003-10-27 False M001141 Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA] ZELL MILLER D GA 2003-10-27 False T000024 Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] JIM TALENT R MO 2003-10-27 False B000611 Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] CHRISTOPHER BOND R MO S. 2003-11-24 False I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2003-11-24 False S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2004-02-24 False C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2004-02-24 False C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2004-05-12 False L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2004-05-12 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 2003-10-14 Introduced in Senate 2003-11-05T14:50:48Z 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.

]]> Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act Display Title Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to reduce the preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act Short Titles as Introduced PREEMIE Act Introduced in Senate 2003-10-14T04:00:00Z 2003-10-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.