3.0.0 2407 2023-01-11T13:15:27Z 2023-01-11T13:15:27Z Senate S S 2007-12-04 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-12-04T23:16:11Z Pregnant Women Support Act 110 3192 HR 2008-04-25 Executive Comment Requested from USDA. Related bill CRS 2007-12-13 Senate Star Print ordered on on the bill. Floor 2007-12-04 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-12-04 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14743-14745) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-12-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N N000180 Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE] E. Nelson D NE Benjamin 2008-04-28 False Health Abortion Adoption Agriculture and Food Authorization Block grants Breast feeding Child nutrition Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Clinics Cost of living adjustments Counseling Crime and Law Enforcement Crimes against women Criminal investigation Damages Day care Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Down's syndrome Dropouts Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Families Family violence Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Finance and Financial Sector Food stamps Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Health education Health information systems Health insurance Health surveys Hereditary diseases Higher education Homicide Housing and Community Development Imaging systems in medicine Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Infants Informed consent (Medical law) Maternal health services Medically uninsured Nurses Parent and child Physical examinations Poor children Pregnancy Pregnant women Public service advertising Punitive damages School health programs Science, Technology, Communications Secondary education Social Welfare Stalking Student housing Tax credits Tax refunds Taxation Teenage pregnancy Victims of crimes Violence WIC program Welfare eligibility Women Health 00 2007-12-04 Introduced in Senate 2008-04-08T20:30:11Z Pregnant Women Support Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women to carry their pregnancy to term and new parents.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a health insurance issuer offering individual coverage from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion or a waiting period or otherwise discriminating against a woman on the basis that she is pregnant.

Provides for continuation coverage for newborns.

Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to allow states to extend health care coverage to an unborn child.

Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtain informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion.

Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions.

Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices.

Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete high school.

Authorizes grants for services to pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to require a pregnancy determination for homicide victims.

Requires group homes for pregnant and parenting women to provide counseling on adoption and parenting skills.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and make refundable the tax credit for adoption expenses.

Authorizes appropriations to carry out the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC program).

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.

Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.

Authorizes grants to provide to eligible mothers education on the health needs of their infants through visits to their homes by registered nurses.

Authorizes grants for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data.

]]> Pregnant Women Support Act Display Title Pregnant Women Support Act Short Titles as Introduced Pregnant Women Support Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2407is/xml/BILLS-110s2407is.xml 2007-12-13 Star Print ordered on on the bill. 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.