3.0.0 3396 2020-02-10T17:02:03Z 2020-02-10T17:02:03Z Senate S S 2008-07-31 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-07-31T23:27:24Z Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 110 6752 HR 2008-07-31 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2008-07-31 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-07-31 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7952) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. N D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2008-07-31 True K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2008-07-31 True C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2008-07-31 True Health Commerce Consumer education Drug approvals Drug industry Drug therapy Drugs Economics and Public Finance Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Grants-in-aid Nonprescription drugs Physicians Prescription pricing Health 00 2008-07-31 Introduced in Senate 2008-11-17T19:50:17Z Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to award grants or contracts for: (1) the development and production of educational materials concerning the evidence available on the relative safety, effectiveness, and cost of prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and nondrug interventions for treating selected conditions, to be distributed and presented to health care providers who prescribe such drugs and their patients; and (2) the development and implementation of a program to appropriately train and deploy health professionals to distribute such materials to, and otherwise educate, physicians and other drug prescribers concerning such drugs and interventions.

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]]> Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 Display Title Independent Drug Education and Outreach Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants or contracts for prescription drug education and outreach for healthcare providers and their parents. Introduced in Senate 2008-07-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3396is/xml/BILLS-110s3396is.xml 2008-07-31 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.