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Pregnant Women Support Act

Introduced: September 21, 2006 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 2, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Nov 2, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Oct 13, 2006
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Oct 3, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Oct 2, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
Sep 21, 2006
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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.
Sep 21, 2006
Introduced in House
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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, except in a medical emergency.

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 and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking. Requires states to have a pregnant "box check" on homicide death certificates.

Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist pregnant and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating.

Requires the Secretary to provide for programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to finish 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.

What's happening now November 2, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 11
All 11 Democratic 2 Republican 1
SOUDER, MARK
· Dec 5, 2006
BERRY, MARION
· Sep 21, 2006
BOYD, ALLEN
· Sep 21, 2006
 D
Clyburn, James E.
South Carolina · Sep 21, 2006
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Sep 21, 2006
Marshall, Jim
· Sep 21, 2006
Melancon, Charlie
· Sep 21, 2006
MOLLOHAN, ALAN
· Sep 21, 2006
ORTIZ, SOLOMON
· Sep 21, 2006
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Sep 21, 2006
TAYLOR, GENE
· Sep 21, 2006
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6145: Pregnant Women Support Act. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-6145/
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