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H.R. 1074: Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act

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Date Senator Action
2007-10-23 / 12:00:00 AM Tom Allen Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Earl Blumenauer Cosponsor
2008-03-12 / 12:00:00 AM Lois Capps Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Joseph Crowley Cosponsor
2008-02-12 / 12:00:00 AM Artur Davis Cosponsor
2007-02-27 / 12:00:00 AM Danny Davis Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Peter DeFazio Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Rosa L. DeLauro Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Mike Doyle Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Rahm Emanuel Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Anna Eshoo Cosponsor
2007-05-08 / 12:00:00 AM Sam Farr Cosponsor
2007-03-26 / 12:00:00 AM Baron Hill Cosponsor
2008-09-27 / 12:00:00 AM Steve Israel Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Marcy Kaptur Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Patrick Kennedy Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Dale E. Kildee Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Dennis Kucinich Cosponsor
2007-11-13 / 12:00:00 AM Nicholas Lampson Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM James Langevin Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM John B. Larson Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Carolyn Maloney Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Betty McCollum Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM James P. McGovern Cosponsor
2008-02-12 / 12:00:00 AM Kendrick Meek Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM George Miller Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM James P. Moran Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Dave Obey Cosponsor
2007-02-27 / 12:00:00 AM Bill Pascrell, Jr. Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM David Price Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Tim Ryan Introduced
2007-03-26 / 12:00:00 AM Linda Sanchez Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Adam Smith Cosponsor
2007-05-01 / 12:00:00 AM Bart Stupak Cosponsor
2007-11-13 / 12:00:00 AM Mark Udall Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Debbie Wasserman Schultz Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Joe Courtney Cosponsor
2008-02-12 / 12:00:00 AM Betty Sutton Cosponsor
2007-02-15 / 12:00:00 AM Patrick J. Murphy Cosponsor
2008-05-07 / 12:00:00 AM André Carson Cosponsor
Full title:
To provide for programs that reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, help women bear healthy children, and support new parents.

Summary:
Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies.

Provides for: (1) grants to prevent teen pregnancy; and (2) a national center for parents of adolescents to support parents in preventing teen pregnancy.

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of Social Security Act to expand coverage of family planning services.

Sets forth requirements for primary care clinics that receive federal financial assistance and provide abortion services.

Expands state options to provide health care coverage to low-income pregnant women.

Title X Family Planning Services Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for voluntary family planning projects.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit individual health insurance coverage from excluding pregnancy as a preexisting condition.

Provides for: (1) grants for ultrasound equipment and prenatal testing for pregnant women; and (2) programs to better identify and treat pregnant women and mothers who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Allows the Secretary to make grants to public institutions of higher education to assist students who have decided to carry their pregnancies to term and parenting students in continuing their studies and graduating.

Requires the Secretary to require that federally funded group homes for pregnant and parenting women provide, upon request, adoption counseling and counseling on parenting skills.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax credit for adoption expenses; (2) make such tax credit refundable; and (3) increase the exclusion from gross income for employer-paid adoption expenses.

Provides for: (1) education of teen and first-time mothers through home visits by registered nurses; and (2) the collection and reporting of abortion surveillance data.