Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007

To amend the Public Health Service Act regarding residential treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, a program to reduce substance abuse among nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.

1/11/2007--Introduced.
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the grant program to provide residential substance abuse treatment to pregnant and postpartum women to include:
(1) parenting women substance abuse treatment (including treatment for addiction to methamphetamine); and
(2) outpatient treatment services. Requires that such treatment programs be accessible to pregnant and parenting women in health disparity populations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand, intensify, and coordinate efforts to provide treatment for methamphetamine addiction to pregnant and parenting women.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts for to assist local jails and detention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based substance abuse treatment services to pregnant and parenting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. Sets forth criteria that must be met if such a grant is used for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative to incarceration.
Gives priority in awarding grants under this Act to any entity that agrees to use the award for programs serving an area that:
(1) is a rural area, an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, or an area with a shortage of family-based substance abuse treatment options; and
(2) has high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Barbara Cubin [R, WY-0]
• and 25 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Sanford Bishop [D, GA-2]
  • Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
  • Rep. Leonard Boswell [D, IA-3]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
  • Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Bob Etheridge [D, NC-2]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • Rep. Darlene Hooley [D, OR-5]
  • Rep. Rick Larsen [D, WA-2]
  • Rep. Jerry McNerney [D, CA-11]
  • Rep. Eleanor Norton [D, DC-0]
  • Rep. Steven Pearce [R, NM-2]
  • Rep. James Ramstad [R, MN-3]
  • Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R, MT-0]
  • Rep. Victor Snyder [D, AR-2]
  • Rep. Mark Souder [R, IN-3]
  • Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]
  • Rep. Tom Udall [D, NM-3]
  • Rep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]
  • Rep. Zach Wamp [R, TN-3]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 1 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.405

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
January 11, 2007

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• Feb 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jan 11, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Jan 11, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Women's health
• Drug abuse
• Access to health care
• Budgets
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• Children
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Criminal justice
• Drug abuse treatment
• Drug addiction
• Drug testing
• Drugs and women
• Drugs and youth
• Families
• Family services
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Health counseling
• Health policy
• Medical care
• Medical statistics
• Medicine
• Mental health services
• Methamphetamine
• Minorities
• Minority health
• Mortality
• Parent and child
• Parents
• Pregnant women
• Prison alternatives
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Rural affairs
• Rural health
• Sentences (Criminal procedure)
• Women
• Women's health services

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January 29, 2007 Bills target reservation meth

Together with Montana’s Denny Rehberg and other bipartisan supporters, Cubin is sponsoring HR 405, to “make funding for family-based treatment available to ...

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