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Pregnant Women Support Act

Introduced: July 26, 2007 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
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 the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 26, 2007
Introduced in House
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.
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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.

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.

What's happening now April 25, 2008

Executive Comment Requested from USDA.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 2407 Related bill Pregnant Women Support Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2
R
Boozman, John
Arkansas · Jul 26, 2007
 D
Clyburn, James E.
South Carolina · Jul 26, 2007
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Jul 26, 2007
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Jul 26, 2007
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3192: Pregnant Women Support Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-3192/
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"H.R. 3192: Pregnant Women Support Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-3192/.
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H.R. 3192, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-3192/.
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