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Bills Introduced

Child Care
S. 668 —-Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/19/03)—A bill to provide incentive grants to improve the quality of child care.

Child Protection
S. 644 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (03/18/03)—A bill to enhance national efforts to investigate, prosecute, and prevent crimes against children by increasing investigatory tools, criminal penalties, and resources and by extending existing laws.

H.R. 1362 —-Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Judiciary, Ways and Means (03/19/03)—A bill to provide enhanced federal enforcement and assistance in preventing and prosecuting crimes of violence against children.

Child Support
S. 669 —-Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) / Finance (03/19/03)—A bill to provide more child support money to families leaving welfare, to simplify the rules governing the assignment and distribution of child support collected by states on behalf of children, to improve the collection of child support, and for other purposes.

Education
H.R. 1350 —-Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-DE) / Education and the Workforce (03/19/03)—A bill to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and for other purposes.

Family Support
S. 657 —-Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) / Finance (03/19/03)—A bill to provide grants to promote responsible fatherhood, to encourage teen pregnancy prevention strategies, and for other purposes.

Health
S. 632 —-Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) / Finance (03/17/03)—A bill to expand Medicare coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease.

H. Con. Res. 99 —-Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) / Energy and Commerce (03/18/03)—A concurrent resolution directing Congress to enact legislation by October 2005 that provides access to comprehensive health care for all Americans.

H.R. 1314 —-Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce (03/18/03)—A bill to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for any class of covered individuals if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for such class and to provide for Medicaid coverage of annual screening mammography.

H.R. 1319—-Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/18/03)—A bill to require that group and individual health plans provide coverage for second opinions.

H.R. 1340 —-Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/18/03)—A bill to expand and improve Medicare coverage of mental health services.

S. 646 —-Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) / Finance (03/18/03)—A bill to expand and improve Medicare coverage of mental health services.

S. 650 —-Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/18/03)—A bill to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require research into drugs used in pediatric patients.

H.R. 1359 —-Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/19/03)—A bill to increase the number of well-trained mental health service professionals (including those based in schools) providing clinical mental health care to children and adolescents, and for other purposes.

International
H.R. 1298 —-Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL) / International Relations (03/17/03)—A bill to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.

Miscellaneous
S. J. Res. 11—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Judiciary (03/18/03)—A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for women and men.

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