Subject Health promotion and preventive care | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SR152 | A resolution designating November 28, 2013, as "National Holoprosencephaly Awareness Day" to increase awareness and education of the disorder. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-22 |
| US | SR145 | A resolution promoting minority health awareness and supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Month in April 2013 to bring attention to the health disparities faced by minority populations such as American Indians and Alaska Native... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3585; text as passed Senate: CR S3532) |
| US | HB1984 | Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| US | SB945 | Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 |
| US | SB931 | Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-13 |
| US | SB422 | Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act of 2013 - Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and service... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| US | SR135 | Designates the week of October 7-13, 2013, as Naturopathic Medicine Week. Recognizes the value of naturopathic medicine in providing safe, effective, and affordable health care. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 |
| US | HB1915 | GEDI Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 |
| US | SB852 | Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to designate and operate at least one center of innovation for complementary and alternative medicine in health research, education, and clinical activities in ea... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| US | SB907 | GEDI Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 |
| US | SB875 | Department of Veterans Affairs Disease Reporting and Oversight Act of 2013 - Requires the director of a Veterans Integrated Service Network, within 24 hours after confirming the presence of a notifiable infectious disease (any infectious disease that... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 |
| US | SB865 | Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | HB1830 | Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish the Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer to help end breast cancer by January 1, 2020. Directs the Commission to: (1) identify opportunities and ideas... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | SB859 | Animal and Public Health Protection Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to offer to enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements with eligible laboratories to: (1) d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | HB1657 | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 |
| US | HB1510 | SNAP Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make households in which each member receives state assistance under the temporary assistance to needy families program (TANF), the supplemental security income program (SSI)... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-03 |
| US | HB1757 | Vaccine Safety Study Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | SR116 | A resolution designating September 26, 2013, as "National Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day". [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2991-2992; text as passed Senate: CR S3046) |
| US | SR119 | Supports the ideals of World Malaria Day, including the target of ending malaria deaths by 2015. Recognizes the importance of reducing malaria to improve child and maternal health, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Commends the progress made toward r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3060; text as passed Senate: CR S3047-3048) |
| US | SB810 | Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that, as the United States draws down combat operations in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense (DOD) should continue to seek to assist in the identification of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB546 | Promoting Partnerships to Transform Opportunities Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make competitive grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, nonprofit organizations in par... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB725 | Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to enable eligible entities to carry out programs that provide adolescents with comprehensive sex education to: (1) r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB973 | Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt an employer opposed by reason of adherence to a religious belief or moral conviction from the tax penalty imposed for failure of a group health plan to cover requir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1200 | American Health Security Act of 2013 - Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1100 | Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award gr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HCR35 | Supports the ideals of World Malaria Day, including the target of ending malaria deaths by 2015. Recognizes the importance of reducing malaria to improve child and maternal health, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Commends the progress made toward r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SR104 | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. Encourages state and local governments to recognize and support such a day. Promotes effective and comprehensive HIV prevention education programs as a tool to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-22 |
| US | HB1559 | Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants and enter into contracts for preventive health care training of rural health care p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-19 |
| US | HB1616 | Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-19 |
| US | HB1599 | Native American Suicide Prevention Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-19 |
| US | SB762 | A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to improve the supplemental nutrition assistance program. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | SB764 | Patients' Right to Know Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | SB726 | Rural Preventive Health Care Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants and enter into contracts for preventive health care training of rural health care p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HR144 | Express support for the designation of National Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month. Declares that steps should be taken to: (1) raise awareness of and increase public knowledge about congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH); (2) inform mino... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | HR148 | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. Encourages state and local governments to recognize and support such a day. Promotes effective and comprehensive HIV prevention education programs as a tool to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | SB689 | Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 37. |
| US | SB719 | Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | HB1515 | 21st Century Global Health Technology Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) a program to develop technologies designed to: (1) improve the health and nutrition of populat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | HB672 | Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to states and nonprofit entities for cons... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB895 | Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2013 - Directs the Bureau of Prisons to develop a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates in federal prisons and upon reentry into the community. Requires such policy to include pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB984 | Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), in order to continue and expand the DOD report submitted in 2011, to establish the Task Force on Urotrauma to: (1) conduct a study on urotrauma (injury to the urinary tract from a penetrating, blunt, blast, the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| US | HB1251 | Veteran Excellence Through Education Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make grants, during FY2014-FY2019, to minority-serving institutions for establishing verified delivery systems to address social and academic prob... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| US | SR91 | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Public Health Week. Recognizes the efforts of public health professionals, governments, and individuals in preventing disease and injury. Encourages increased efforts and investment of resources ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 |
| US | HR124 | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Public Health Week. Recognizes the efforts of public health professionals, governments, and individuals in preventing disease and injury. Encourages increased efforts and investment of resources ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HB1281 | Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HR114 | Recognizes the Sabin Vaccine Institute on 20 years of success. Expresses support for the efforts of the Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine to reduce the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases by developing new vac... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HR133 | Supports the goals of World Tuberculosis Day. Commends the progress made by U.S.-led anti-tuberculosis programs. Reaffirms the commitment of the House of Representatives to global tuberculosis control made through the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HB1320 | Supporting Colorectal Examination and Education Now Act of 2013 or SCREEN Act of 2013 - Increases Medicare payments to qualifying Medicare providers by 10% for cancer screening tests recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Terminates ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | HB1274 | Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to recognize state-licensed or -registered certified diabetes educators or state-licensed or -registered health care professionals who special... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| US | SR83 | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week. Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to ending multiple sclerosis by promoting: (1) awareness about individuals that are affected by multiple sclerosis; and (2) education prog... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
