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Women's Health-Related Legislation in the United States Congress
October - December 2003
H.R. 3664
Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R-FL)
Energy and Commerce
(12/08/03)
A bill to prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities.H.R. 3658
Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce
(12/08/03)
A bill to strengthen education, prevention, and treatment programs relating to stroke.H.R. 3656
Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means
(12/08/03)
A bill to impose minimum nurse staffing ratios in Medicare participating hospitals.S. 2003
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
Finance
(12/09/03)
A bill to promote higher quality health care and better health by strengthening health information, information infrastructure, and the use of health information by providers and patients.S. 1992
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Finance
(12/09/03)
A bill to eliminate privatization of Medicare, to improve the Medicare prescription drug benefit, to repeal health savings accounts.S. 1988
Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
Finance
(12/09/03)
A bill to establish minimum requirements for nurse staffing in nursing facilities receiving payments under Medicare or Medicaid.S. 2000
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Considered and passed
(12/09/03)
A bill to extend the special postage stamp for breast cancer research for 2 years.H. Con. Res. 348
Rep. Mark E. Souder (R-IN)
Energy and Commerce
(12/08/03)
A resolution recognizing the survivors of cervical cancer and the importance of good cervical health, preventing HPV infection, and detecting cervical cancer during its earliest stages.S. 1930
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(11/21/03)
A bill to provide that the approved application under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the drug commonly known as RU-486 is deemed to have been withdrawn, to provide for the review by the Comptroller General of the United States of the process by which the Food and Drug Administration approved such drug.H.R. 3628
Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
Energy and Commerce
(11/21/03)
A bill to facilitate the procurement of safe food by hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and child care facilities.H.R. 3593
Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL)
Education and the Workforce
(11/21/03)
A bill to provide funds for campus mental and behavioral health service centers.H.R. 3588
Rep. Donna Christensen (D-VI)
Energy and Commerce
(11/21/03)
A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish health empowerment zone programs in communities that disproportionately experience disparities in health status and health care.S. 1929
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) / Considered and passed
(11/21/03)
A bill to extend the mental health benefits parity provisions for an additional year.S. 1926
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Finance
(11/21/03)
A bill to restore Medicare.S. 1935
Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
Finance
(11/23/03)
A bill to require employers to offer health care coverage for all employees, and to guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children born after 2001.S. 1950
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Finance
(11/24/03)
A bill to deliver a meaningful benefit and lower prescription drug prices under Medicare.S. 1945
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(11/24/03)
A bill to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.S. 1939
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(11/24/03)
A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the public is provided adequate notice and education on the effects of exposure to mercury through the development of health advisories and by requiring that such appropriate advisories be posted, or made readily available, at all businesses that sell fresh, frozen, and canned fish and seafood where the potential for mercury exposure exists.S. 1976
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Finance
(11/25/03)
A bill to permit qualifying states to use a portion of their allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program for any fiscal year for certain medical expenditures.S. 1974
Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
Finance
(11/25/03)
A bill to make improvements to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.S. 1956
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(11/25/03)
A bill to provide assistance to states and nongovernmental entities to initiate public awareness and outreach campaigns to reduce teen pregnancies.S. 1954
Sen. Michael K. Crapo (R-ID)
Judiciary
(11/25/03)
A bill to amend the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 by expanding the legal assistance for victims of violence grant program to include legal assistance for victims of dating violence.H. Res. 447
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Energy and Commerce, International Relations
(11/18/03)
A resolution recognizing the horrific effects of obstetric fistulas and urging that programs be initiated to prevent and treat obstetric fistulas.S. 1875
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Read for the first time
(11/17/03)
A bill to extend the mental health benefits parity provisions for an additional year.H.R. 3513
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Energy and Commerce
(11/18/03)
A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand and intensify programs with respect to research and related activities concerning elder falls.H.R. 3512
Rep. C.L. Otter (R-ID)
Energy and Commerce
(11/18/03)
A bill to provide for the establishment of demonstration programs to address the shortages of health care professionals in rural areas.S. 1879
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(11/18/03)
A bill to revise and extend provisions relating to mammography quality standards.H. Con. Res. 330
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA)
International Relations
(11/19/03)
Concurrent resolution expressing the concern of Congress regarding human rights violations committed against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals around the world based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.S. 1811
Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/31/03)
A bill to expand research for women in trauma.H.R. 3451
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce
(11/05/03)
A bill to authorize grants for treatment and support services for Alzheimer's patients and their families.H.R. 3469
Rep. Steven R. Rothman (D-NJ)
Energy and Commerce
(11/06/03)
A bill to prohibit the use of vending machines to sell tobacco products in all locations in which the presence of minors is permitted.H.R. 3459
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD)
Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Judiciary, Resources, Ways and Means
(11/06/03)
A bill to improve the health of minority individuals.H. Con. Res. 322
Rep. E. Clay Shaw (R-FL)
Energy and Commerce
(11/06/03)
A concurrent resolution recognizing November as National Lung Cancer Awareness Month and expressing the sense of Congress that federal efforts need to increase in the areas of lung cancer screening and research.H.R. 3438
Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-MI)
Energy and Commerce
(11/04/03)
A bill to provide for programs to increase the awareness and knowledge of women and health care providers with respect to gynecologic cancers.H.R. 3425
Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-CA)
Judiciary
(10/30/03)
A bill to provide grants for public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities about domestic violence.H.R. 3424
Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-CA)
Judiciary
(10/30/03)
A bill to authorize the establishment of domestic violence court systems from amounts available for grants to combat violence against women.H.R. 3420
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means
(10/30/03)
A bill to promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic and sexual violence.S. 1801
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Finance (10/30/03)
A bill to promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic and sexual violence.S. 1810
Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/31/03)
A bill to improve treatment for the mental health abuse and substance abuse needs of women with histories of trauma, including domestic and sexual violence.S. 1809
Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/31/03)
A bill to provide grants for mental health and substance abuse services for women and children who have been victims of domestic or sexual violence.H.R. 3453
Rep. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Energy and Commerce
(11/06/03)
A bill to suspend the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of RU-486 and provide for a Comptroller General review of the process by which the FDA approved the drug.H.R. 3377
Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce
(10/28/03)
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to dietary supplements.H. Con. Res. 314
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
Energy and Commerce
(10/29/03)
A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding women with bleeding disorders.H.R. 3332
Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN)
Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means
(10/17/03)
A bill to establish a safety net Medicare outpatient prescription drug program for indigent beneficiaries without other outpatient prescription drug coverage.H.R. 3351
Rep. James T. Walsh (R-NY)
Veterans Affairs
(10/20/03)
A bill to provide the same type of vocational rehabilitation benefits and services under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for certain children with spina bifida as are currently available to veterans with service-connected disabilities.H.R. 3362
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)
Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Ways and Means
(10/21/03)
A bill to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage of screening for breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer.H.R. 3355
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means
(10/21/03)
A bill to establish minimum requirements for nurse staffing in nursing facilities receiving payments under Medicare or Medicaid.S. Res. 252
Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC)
(10/23/03)
A resolution designating February 2004 as "National Cancer Prevention Month."H.R. 3350
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)
Energy and Commerce
(10/20/03)
A bill to reduce pre-term labor and delivery, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity.S. 1730
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/14/03)
A bill to require health plans to provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and to provide coverage for secondary consultations.H.R. 3299
Rep. John B. Larson (D-CT)
Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means
(10/15/03)
A bill to provide for prescription drugs at reduced prices to Medicare beneficiaries.S. 1726
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/14/03)
A bill to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity.H.R. 3293
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)
Energy and Commerce
(10/15/03)
A bill to provide states with the option to expand or add coverage for pregnant women under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.S. 1734
Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR)
Finance
(10/15/03)
A bill to provide states with the option to expand or add coverage for pregnant women under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.S. 1699
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/01/03)
A bill to amend the Head Start Act to require parental consent for nonemergency intrusive physical examinations.H. Con. Res. 292
Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA)
Energy and Commerce
(10/02/03)
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Congress should adopt and implement the goals and recommendations provided by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health through legislation or other appropriate action to help ensure affordable, accessible, and high quality mental health care for all Americans.H.R. 3243
Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
Energy and Commerce
(10/02/03)
A bill to establish a state family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to state agencies for the purpose of obtaining mental health services for those children.S.1704
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
(10/02/03)
A bill to establish a state family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to state agencies for the purpose of obtaining mental health services for those children.S. 1697
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
(10/01/03)
A bill to establish the elderly housing plus health support demonstration program to modernize public housing for elderly and disabled persons.
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