HR 2941
105th Congress
House
Health
Aid to dependent children
Block grants
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Drug abuse
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Medicaid
Parent and child
Social Welfare
State laws
To permit States to condition use of State funds for purchase of prescription drugs for minors under certain Federal State matching programs upon parental consent.
Introduced: November 8, 1997
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 20, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Nov 18, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Nov 8, 1997
Referred to House Ways and Means
Nov 8, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Nov 8, 1997
Referred to House Commerce
Nov 8, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Prohibits construing any Federal-State matching program as preventing a State from requiring, as a condition of providing assistance regarding the dispensing of a prescription drug to a minor, that a parent or guardian of the minor consent to the dispensing. Requires that these programs be considered Federal-State matching programs: (1) title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act; (2) title X (Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs) of the Public Health Service Act; (3) title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act; and (4) part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)(TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
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