Women's Health Related Legislation: October

Women's Health-Related Legislation in the United States Congress
October - December 2000

BILL #	SPONSOR	COMMITTEE	DATE
H.R.5615	Rep. Tom Coburn (R-OK)	Commerce;	11/1//00
A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the conduct or support of programs of HIV testing that fail to make every reasonable effort to inform the individuals of the results of the testing.
H.R.5601	Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)	Commerce; Ways and Means	10/30//00
A bill to improve Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
H.R.5467	Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)	Commerce; Ways and Means	10/12//00
A bill to provide for substantial reductions in the price of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
H.R.5419	Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-ME)	Finance	10/6//00
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a demonstration project at the National Cancer Institute to provide funding for research concerning the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure for cancer.
S. 3215	Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)	Health, Education, Labor and Pensions	10/18//00
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize women's health research award programs conducted through the National Institutes of Health.
H.R.1248	Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD)	Commerce; Ways and Means	7/12//00
Violence Against Women Act 2000 - A bill to reauthorize the Federal programs to prevent violence against women, and for other purposes.
H.R. 5262	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)	Ways and Means; Education and the Workforce	9/21//00
Battered Women's Employment Protection Act - To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow leave to address domestic violence and its effects, and for other purposes.
S. 3110	Sen. Paul Wellstone (R-PA)	Health, Education, Labor and Pensions	9/26//00
National Domestic Violence Hotline Enhancement Act - A bill to ensure that victims of domestic violence get the help they need in a single phone call.


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