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Women's Health-Related Legislation in the
United States Congress
April - June 1998
BILL # |
SPONSOR |
COMMITTEE |
DATE |
| H.R. 4092 | Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) | Commerce, Ways and Means | 6/19/98 |
| A bill to increase the amount of payment under the Medicare program for pap smear laboratory tests. | |||
| H.R.4030 | Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-CT) | Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Banking and Financial Services, Judiciary | 6/10/98 |
| A bill to make child care more affordable for working families and for stay-at-home parents with children under the age of four, to double the number of children receiving child care assistance, to provide after-school care, and to improve child care safety and quality and enhance early childhood development. | |||
| S.2154/H.R.4028 | Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) |
Labor and Human Resources Commerce |
6/10/98 |
| A bill to promote research to identify and evaluate the health effects of silicone breast implants, and to ensure that women and their doctors receive accurate information about such implants. | |||
| H.R. 3997 | Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) | Ways and Means, Commerce | 6/4/98 |
| A bill to require Medicare+Choice organizations to assure access to obstetricians-gynecologists and to assure continuity of care. | |||
| S. 2114 | Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) | Labor and Human Resources | (5/22/98) |
| A bill to amend the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Older Americans Act of 1965, and the Public Health Service Act to ensure that older women are protected from institutional, community, and domestic violence and sexual assault and to improve outreach efforts and other services available to older women victimized by such violence. | |||
| S.2110 | Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) | Judiciary | 5/21/98 |
| A bill to authorize federal programs to prevent violence against women. | |||
| S. 2101 | Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT) | Labor and Human Resources | 5/20/98 |
| A bill to provide for research and services with respect to lupus. | |||
| H.R. 3901 | Rep. Deborah Stabenow (D-MI) | Judiciary | 5/19/98 |
| A bill to reauthorize funding for a grant program to encourage arrest policies in dealing with domestic violence. | |||
| S.Con.Res.97 | Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) | Foreign Relations | 5/18/98 |
| A resolution expressing the sense of Congress concerning the human rights and humanitarian situation facing the women and girls of Afghanistan. | |||
| H.R. 3874 | Rep. Michael Castle (R-DE) | Education in the Workforce | 5/14/98 |
| A bill to make improvements to the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) and to extend the authority of that program through fiscal year 2003. | |||
| H.R. 3868 | Rep. James Hansen (R-UT) | Commerce, Ways and Means | 5/14/98 |
| A bill to prevent children from using tobacco products and to reduce the health costs attributable to tobacco products. | |||
| H.R. 3837 | Reps. Henry Hyde (R-IL) and Nita Lowey (D-NY) | Ways and Means | 5/12/98 |
| A bill to permit states to use funds under the Children's Health Insurance Program for coverage of uninsured pregnant women. | |||
| H.R. 3779/ S. 2017 | Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY) Sen. Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY) |
Commerce Finance |
4/30/98 |
| Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act of 1998 -- A bill to provide medical assistance for breast and cervical cancer-related treatment services. | |||
| H.R. 3759 | Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) | Education | 4/29/98 |
| A bill to require institutions of higher education to widely distribute information describing their procedures for receiving and responding to complaints concerning harassment. | |||
| H.R. 3747 | Rep. Sue Kelly (R-NY) | Judiciary | 4/29/98 |
| A bill to expand on the prohibition on stalking. | |||
| H.R. 3716 | Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) | Commerce | 4/23/98 |
| Breast Cancer Research Extension Act of 1998 -- A bill to amend the Public Health service Act to extend the program of research on breast cancer. | |||
| H.R. 3699 | Rep. Constance Morella (R-MD) | Education and the Workforce | 4/21/98 |
| Family Violence Prevention and Services Act -- A bill to amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to reauthorize the national toll-free telephone domestic violence hotline. | |||
| S. 1921 | Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) | Labor and Human Resources | 4/2/98 |
| Health Care Pin Act -- A bill to ensure confidentiality with respect to medical records and health care-related information. | |||
| H.R. 3624 | Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) | Education and the Workforce, Judiciary, Commerce, Banking and Financial Services | 4/1/98 |
| Older Women's Protection From Violence Act of 1998 -- A bill to ensure that older women are protected from domestic violence and sexual assault and to improve outreach and education efforts to older women victimized by violence. | |||
| H.R. 3665 | Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) | Education and the Workforce | 4/1/98 |
| Battered Women's Shelters and Services Act -- A bill to amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act. | |||
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