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  <title>Open Congress : Health - Major Bill Actions</title>
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  <updated>2008-12-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.7311 Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-24:/action/178986</id>
    <updated>2008-12-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 24, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-457.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.7311 Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h7311/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-23:/action/178985</id>
    <updated>2008-12-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 23, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.7311 Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h7311/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-12:/action/178971</id>
    <updated>2008-12-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 12, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.7311 Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-10:/action/178937</id>
    <updated>2008-12-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 10, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.7311 Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h7311/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-09:/action/178727</id>
    <updated>2008-12-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1532 Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-13:/action/177157</id>
    <updated>2008-10-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 13, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1532 Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1532/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-13:/action/176881</id>
    <updated>2008-10-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 13, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-392.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.2851 Michelle's Law</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2851/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-09:/action/176808</id>
    <updated>2008-10-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 09, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.2851 Michelle's Law</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2851/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-09:/action/176809</id>
    <updated>2008-10-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 09, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-381.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1157 Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1157/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176804</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1157 Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1157/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176805</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-354.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1343 Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1343/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176806</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1343 Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1343/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176807</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-355.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.5265 Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5265/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176821</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.5265 Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5265/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-08:/action/176822</id>
    <updated>2008-10-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 08, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-361.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1199/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176795</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-345.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1199/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176776</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1424/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-03:/action/176572</id>
    <updated>2008-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 03, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1424/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-03:/action/176573</id>
    <updated>2008-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 03, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1424/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-03:/action/176574</id>
    <updated>2008-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 03, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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