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H.R. 3192: Pregnant Women Support Act

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Date Senator Action
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Robert Marion Berry Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM John Boozman Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Madeleine Z. Bordallo Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Allen Boyd Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Clyburn Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Jerry Costello Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Jo Ann Davis Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Lincoln Davis Introduced
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Trent Franks Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Phil Gingrey Cosponsor
2008-09-23 / 12:00:00 AM Baron Hill Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Tim Holden Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Duncan Hunter Cosponsor
2008-02-26 / 12:00:00 AM William Jefferson Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Marcy Kaptur Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Dale E. Kildee Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Peter King Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM James Langevin Cosponsor
2008-04-30 / 12:00:00 AM Zoe Lofgren Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Marshall Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Mike McIntyre Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Alan Mollohan Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM John Murtha Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Jim Oberstar Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Solomon P. Ortiz Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Mike Pence Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Collin Peterson Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Rick Renzi Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Tim Ryan Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Christopher H. Smith Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Mark Souder Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Bart Stupak Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Gene Taylor Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM John Barrow Cosponsor
2007-11-01 / 12:00:00 AM Dan Lipinski Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Charlie Melancon Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Dan Boren Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Doug Lamborn Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Joe Donnelly Cosponsor
2007-07-26 / 12:00:00 AM Heath Shuler Cosponsor
Full title:
To provide for programs that reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.

Summary:
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.