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S 1345 111th Congress Senate Education Books and print media Child health Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Health personnel Language arts Preschool education Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Prescribe A Book Act

Introduced: June 24, 2009 Introduced by: Reed, Jack Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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Jun 24, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7009-7010)
Jun 24, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7009)
Jun 24, 2009
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Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children.

Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.

What's happening now June 24, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7009-7010)

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 6 Republican 2
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Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · Feb 4, 2010
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Dec 17, 2009
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Cantwell, Maria
Washington · Oct 26, 2009
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Oct 22, 2009
 R
Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Jun 24, 2009
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Jun 24, 2009
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Murray, Patty
Washington · Jun 24, 2009
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Jun 24, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1345: Prescribe A Book Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1345/
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