Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program, and for other purposes.

10/4/2007--Introduced.
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Services Program to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to:
(1) establish a research agenda more... for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD);
(2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and
(3) award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to states and other entities to provide services for individuals with FASD, to educate court, law enforcement, and adoption officials on how to treat and support individuals with FASD, and to provide transitional services for individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure.
Requires:
(1) the Secretary to provide for continuation of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; and
(2) the Comptroller General to evaluate and make recommendations regarding appropriate federal FASD activities.
Includes within the grant program for services to individuals with FASD:
(1) respite care for caretakers of such individuals,
(2) recruitment and training of mentors for such individuals; and
(3) educational and supportive services to families of such individuals.
Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to implement screening procedures and introduce curricula for educating children with FASD.
Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to:
(1) educate officials on how to treat individuals with FASD;
(2) study the inadequacies of the current system for dealing with such individuals; and
(3) develop transitional programs for such individuals who are released from incarceration.

Sponsor

• Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
• and 9 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Norm Coleman [R, MN]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
  • Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.2141

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
October 04, 2007

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