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Bills Introduced

Abortion
S.3—-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) / (02/14/03)—A bill to prohibit the procedure commonly known as “partial-birth” abortion.

Child Care
H.R. 893 —-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) / Financial Services (02/25/03)—A bill to provide for the construction and renovation of child care facilities, and for other purposes.

H.R. 936 —-Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-CA) / Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, Judiciary, Ways and Means (02/26/03)—A bill to leave no child behind.

Child Protection
H.R. 889 —-Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) / Judiciary (02/25/03)—A bill to eliminate the backlog in performing DNA analyses of DNA samples collected from convicted child sex offenders, and for other purposes.

H.R. 939 —-Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) / Judiciary (02/26/03)—A bill to punish persons who use false or misleading domain names to attract children to Internet sites not appropriate for children.

Education
S. 4 —-Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (02/14/03)—A bill to improve access to a quality education for all students.

H.R. 930 —-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (02/26/03)—A bill to expand the incentives for the construction and renovation of public schools.

H.R. 934 —-Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce (02/26/03)—A bill to expand the loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for teachers, to provide loan forgiveness and loan cancellation programs for nurses, and for other purposes.

H.R. 947 —-Rep. Anthony D. Weiner (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce (02/26/03)—A bill to authorize local educational agencies to prohibit the transfer of students to schools that are at or above capacity, and for other purposes.

Family Planning
H.R. 926 —-Rep. Melissa A. Hart (R-PA) / Education and the Workforce (02/26/03)—A bill to prohibit federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception.

Health
S. 415 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (02/14/03)—A bill to provide, with respect to research on breast cancer, for the increased involvement of advocates in decision making at the National Cancer Institute.

S. 416 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Finance (02/14/03)—A bill to provide for Medicare coverage of annual screening pap smear and screening pelvic exams.

S. 417 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Governmental Affairs (02/14/03)—A bill to ensure that coverage of bone mass measurements is provided under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

S. 419 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Finance (02/14/03)—A bill to expand Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements to all individuals at clinical risk of osteoporosis.

H.R. 873 —-Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (02/25/03)—A bill to raise awareness of eating disorders and to create educational programs concerning the same, and for other purposes.

H.R. 916 —-Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce, Science (02/25/03)—A bill to prohibit the expenditure of federal funds to conduct or support research on the cloning of humans, and to express the sense of Congress that other countries should establish substantially equivalent restrictions.

H.R. 91 —-Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) / Energy and Commerce (02/26/03)—A bill to authorize the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Cancer Institute, and the Indian Health Service to make grants for model programs to provide to individuals of health disparity populations prevention, early detection, treatment, and appropriate follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and to make grants regarding patient navigators to assist individuals of health disparity populations in receiving such services.

H.R. 935 —-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) / Ways and Means (02/26/03)—A bill to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for employees’ spouses and dependent children to coverage provided for other eligible designated beneficiaries of employees.

H.R. 938 —-Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) / Energy and Commerce (02/26/03)—A bill to prohibit federal payments to any individual, business, institution, or organization that engages in human cloning.

Reproductive Health
S. 418 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Governmental Affairs (02/14/03)—A bill to provide protections for new mothers who are breastfeeding.