US Congress House Bill 2678 (Prior Session Legislation)

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August 1 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Communities of Color Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants for programs to provide youth in racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities the information and skills needed to avoid teenage pregnancy and develop healthy relationships. Allows up to 10% of amounts made available for this Act to be allotted for a rigorous, independent evaluation of grant activities. Requires the Secretary to award grants for multimedia campaigns to provide public education and increase public awareness regarding teenage pregnancy and related social and emotional issues. Requires the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make grants for research on teenage pregnancy, dating violence, and healthy relationships among racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities. Requires the Secretary to direct the interagency adolescent health workgroup within the Office of Adolescent Health to include in the work of the group strategies for teenage dating violence prevention and healthy teenage relationships, with a particular focus among racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities, in consultation with the Federal Interagency Workgroup on Teen Dating Violence in the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Communities of Color Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2011

Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille	Rep Bass, Karen	Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Filner, Bob
Rep Grijalva, Raul M.	Rep Hinojosa, Ruben	Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila	Rep Lee, Barbara
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes	Rep Richardson, Laura

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-08-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-07-28	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2011-07-27	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5583-5584)

SB1437 (Related) 2011-07-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN02678:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2678ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr2678ih.pdf