Pregnant Women Support Act

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

7/26/2007--Introduced.
Pregnant Women Support Act - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states for collecting and reporting abortion surveillance data. Requires health facilities that perform abortions to obtained informed consent from a pregnant woman seeking an abortion. 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. 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. Allows the Secretary to make grants for the purchase of ultrasound equipment for examinations of pregnant women. Provides for the collection and dissemination of information on Down syndrome and other prenatally diagnosed conditions. Provides 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 the Secretary to make grants to increase public awareness of resources available to pregnant women and new parents. 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. 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. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to increase the eligibility threshold for food stamps.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Lincoln Davis [D, TN-4]
• and 39 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]
  • Rep. Robert Berry [D, AR-1]
  • Rep. John Boozman [R, AR-3]
  • Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
  • Rep. Dan Boren [D, OK-2]
  • Rep. F. Allen Boyd [D, FL-2]
  • Rep. James Clyburn [D, SC-6]
  • Rep. Jerry Costello [D, IL-12]
  • Rep. Jo Ann Davis [R, VA-1]
  • Rep. Joe Donnelly [D, IN-2]
  • Rep. Trent Franks [R, AZ-2]
  • Rep. John Gingrey [R, GA-11]
  • Rep. Baron Hill [D, IN-9]
  • Rep. Tim Holden [D, PA-17]
  • Rep. Duncan Hunter [R, CA-52]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
  • Rep. Dale Kildee [D, MI-5]
  • Rep. Peter King [R, NY-3]
  • Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5]
  • Rep. James Langevin [D, RI-2]
  • Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D, IL-3]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. James Marshall [D, GA-8]
  • Rep. Mike McIntyre [D, NC-7]
  • Rep. Charles Melancon [D, LA-3]
  • Rep. Alan Mollohan [D, WV-1]
  • Rep. John Murtha [D, PA-12]
  • Rep. James Oberstar [D, MN-8]
  • Rep. Solomon Ortiz [D, TX-27]
  • Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]
  • Rep. Collin Peterson [D, MN-7]
  • Rep. Rick Renzi [R, AZ-1]
  • Rep. Timothy Ryan [D, OH-17]
  • Rep. Heath Shuler [D, NC-11]
  • Rep. Christopher Smith [R, NJ-4]
  • Rep. Mark Souder [R, IN-3]
  • Rep. Bart Stupak [D, MI-1]
  • Rep. Gene Taylor [D, MS-4]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 7 more
  • House Agriculture
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3192

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 26, 2007

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• Apr 25, 2008: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
• Apr 25, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
• Sep 19, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Jul 31, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jul 26, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Jul 26, 2007.

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• Breast feeding
• Authorization
• Women
• Welfare eligibility
• 76 more
• Welfare
• WIC program
• 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
• Block grants
• Adoption
• Actions and defenses
• Abortion
• Medicine

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January 03, 2009 David Lindsay: Real Pro-Life Work

The Pregnant Women Support Act (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407) is a common-sense solution that people on all sides of the political debate can support. All of us should prevent women from being pressured toward abortion in this country and to ...

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January 02, 2009 Right Democrat: A Mainstream Populist Voice: Common Ground ...

The Pregnant Women Support Act (H.R. 3192 and S. 2407) is a common-sense solution that people on all sides of the political debate can support. All of us should prevent women from being pressured toward abortion in this country and to ...

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November 19, 2008 Obama

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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