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Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007

Introduced: March 20, 2007 See on congress.gov

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Mar 20, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Mar 20, 2007

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) convene, on behalf of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, a Treatments, Interventions, and Services Evaluation Task Force to evaluate evidence-based biomedical and behavioral treatments and services for individuals with autism; (2) establish a multi-year demonstration grant program for states to provide evidence-based autism treatments, interventions, and services. (3) establish planning and demonstration grant programs for adults with autism; (4) award grants to states for access to autism services following diagnosis; (5) award grants to University Centers of Excellence for Developmental Disabilities to provide services and address the unmet needs of individuals with autism and their families; (6) make grants to protection and advocacy systems to address the needs of individuals with autism and other emerging populations of individuals with disabilities; and (7) award a grant to a national nonprofit organization for the establishment and maintenance of a national technical assistance center for autism services and information dissemination.

Directs the Comptroller General to issue a report on the financing of autism services and treatments.

What's happening now March 20, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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