US Congress House Bill 523 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prescribe A Book Act Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of Pediatric Early Literacy Programs, through which: health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer parents developmentally appropriate recommendations and strategies for doing so; health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and health care facilities create literacy-rich environments that include gently used books for waiting room use or volunteer readers to show parents the techniques of reading aloud to young children. Requires that the books provided to children under the programs be obtained at a discount.

Prescribe A Book Act

Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]
Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Joaquin Castro [D-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2015-01-26	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
2015-01-26	House	Introduced in House

SB251 (Same As) 2015-01-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S467)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/523/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr523/BILLS-114hr523ih.pdf