S 251
114th Congress
Senate
Education
Books and print media
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Language arts
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Prescribe A Book Act
Introduced: January 26, 2015
Introduced by:
Reed, Jack
Democratic
· Rhode Island
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 26, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S467)
Jan 26, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Prescribe A Book Act
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of Pediatric Early Literacy Programs, through which:
- health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer parents developmentally appropriate recommendations and strategies for doing so;
- 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
- health care facilities create literacy-rich environments that include gently used books for waiting room use or volunteer readers to show parents the techniques of reading aloud to young children.
Requires that the books provided to children under the programs be obtained at a discount.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S467)
Committees of jurisdiction
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