[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1490 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1490

 To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize 
         additional funding for the pregnancy assistance fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2011

   Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize 
         additional funding for the pregnancy assistance fund.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pregnancy Assistance Fund Expansion 
Act''.

SEC. 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 2012 through 
2019.''.
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