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PREEMIE Act

Introduced: April 5, 2005 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 32 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Dec 22, 2006

Became Public Law No: 109-450.

Dec 22, 2006

Signed by President.

Dec 20, 2006

Presented to President.

Dec 9, 2006

Senate agreed to House amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 S11828-11830; text as Senate agreed to House amendment: CR 12/8/2006 S11828-11829)

Dec 9, 2006

Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 12/8/2006 S11828-11830; text as Senate agreed to House amendment: CR 12/8/2006 S11828-11829)

Dec 9, 2006

Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.

Dec 9, 2006

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Dec 9, 2006

On passage Passed without objection.

Dec 9, 2006

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.

Dec 9, 2006

Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 H9304-9306; text of measure as referred in House: CR 12/8/2006 H9304-9305)

Dec 9, 2006

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.

Dec 9, 2006

Mr. Barton (TX) asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.

Dec 9, 2006

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by voice vote. (text: CR 12/8/2006 H9246-9248)

Dec 9, 2006

Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by voice vote.(text: CR 12/8/2006 H9246-9248)

Dec 9, 2006

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 707.

Dec 9, 2006

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 H9246-9250)

Dec 9, 2006

Mr. Barton (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

Aug 2, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Aug 2, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Aug 2, 2006

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Aug 2, 2006

Received in the House.

Aug 1, 2006

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8550-8551)

Aug 1, 2006

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8550-8551)

Aug 1, 2006

The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.

Aug 1, 2006

Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S8550-8551)

Jul 31, 2006

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 541.

Jul 31, 2006

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-298.

Jun 28, 2006

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Nov 14, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12739)

Apr 5, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3212-3213)

Apr 5, 2005

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3212)

Apr 5, 2005

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on December 9, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act or the PREEMIE Act - (Sec. 3) Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) expand and coordinate CDC activities on preterm labor and delivery and infant mortality; (2) conduct ongoing epidemiological studies on the relationship between prematurity, birth defects, and developmental disabilities; and (3) establish systems for the collection of maternal-infant clinical biomedical information to link with the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.

Requires the Secretary to review existing tools and measures to ensure that such tools and measures include information related to the known risk factors of low birth weight and preterm birth.

(Sec. 4) Allows the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects to improve: (1) the provision of information on prematurity to health professionals and the public; and (2) treatment and outcome for babies born preterm.

(Sec. 5) Requires the Secretary to establish an Interagency Coordinating Council on Prematurity and Low Birthweight.

(Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary, acting through the Surgeon General, to convene a conference on preterm birth.

Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 7) Delays (until the earlier of June 30, 2007, or 60 days after enactment of a FY2007 authorization of appropriations to carry out the Head Start Act) the effective date of regulations requiring agencies providing transportation services to ensure that children enrolled in Head Start are transported in school buses or allowable alternate vehicles that: (1) are equipped for use of height- and weight-appropriate child restraint systems; and (2) have reverse beepers.

What's happening now December 22, 2006

Became Public Law No: 109-450.

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