US HB820 | 2011-2012 | 112th Congress

US Congress House Bill 820 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 80-5)
Status: Introduced on February 18 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-04 - 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]

Summary

Prescribe A Book Act - Creates a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) 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 (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children. Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.

Title

Prescribe A Book Act

Sponsors

Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Rep. John Barrow [D-GA]	Rep. Shelley Berkley [D-NV]
Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA]	Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Dan Boren [D-OK]	Rep. Leonard Boswell [D-IA]	Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]	Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]
Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Brett Guthrie [R-KY]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]
Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]	Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Jesse Jackson [D-IL]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Tom Latham [R-IA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Rep. Jim Matheson [D-UT]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]	Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]
Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Nick Rahall [D-WV]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Ross [D-AR]	Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2011-02-18	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Same As/Similar To

SB393 (Same As) 2011-02-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S889)