Pregnant Women Support Act

A bill to provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.

12/4/2007--Introduced.
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.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
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Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

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

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• Dec 13, 2007: Star Print ordered on on the bill.
• Dec 04, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• Dec 04, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14743-14745)
• Introduced on Dec 04, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.3192

Related Issue Areas:

• Women
• Welfare eligibility
• Welfare
• WIC program
• 76 more
• Violence
• Victims of crimes
• Teenage pregnancy
• Technology
• Taxation
• Tax refunds
• Tax credits
• Student housing
• State and local government
• Stalking
• Social services
• Secondary education
• School health programs
• Punitive damages
• Public service advertising
• Pregnant women
• Pregnancy
• Poor children
• Physical examinations
• Parent and child
• Nurses
• Medically uninsured
• Medical care
• Maternal health services
• Informed consent (Medical law)
• Infants
• Indexing (Economic policy)
• Income tax
• Imaging systems in medicine
• Housing
• Homicide
• Higher education
• Hereditary diseases
• Health surveys
• Health policy
• Health insurance
• Health information systems
• Health education
• Government publicity
• Government paperwork
• Government information
• Food stamps
• Food
• Finance
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Federal aid to education
• Federal aid to child health services
• Family violence
• Families
• Elementary and secondary education
• Education
• Economic policy
• Dropouts
• Down's syndrome
• Discrimination in medical care
• Discrimination in insurance
• Day care
• Damages
• Criminal justice
• Criminal investigation
• Crimes against women
• Counseling
• Cost of living adjustments
• Communications
• Clinics
• Civil rights
• Children
• Child nutrition
• Budgets
• Breast feeding
• Block grants
• Authorization
• Adoption
• Actions and defenses
• Abortion
• Medicine

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November 18, 2008 Anti-Choice Advocates Oppose Measures That Actually Decrease the ...

Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Congressman Lincoln Davis (D-TN) and Pro-life Democrats in Congress who share this same commitment have introduced the Pregnant Women Support Act (S. 2407 and H.R. 3192) in the U.S Senate and U.S House. ...

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This bill (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407), sponsored in the last Congress by Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN) and Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), would, among other things:. Establish a toll-free number to direct women to places that will provide support ...

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November 11, 2008 Thoughts on America’s Historic Election

This bill (HR 3192 and S. 2407), sponsored in the last Congress by Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN) and Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), would, among other things:. Establish a toll-free number to direct women to places that will provide support ...

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