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Bills Introduced

Child Abuse
H.R. 1391—-Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to provide for an increase in the authorization of appropriations for community-based family resource and support grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

Child Protection
H.R. 1471—-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Judiciary, Ways and Means (04/04/01)—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 to promote marriage.

Crime
H.R. 1343—-Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) / Judiciary (04/03/01)—)— A bill to provide federal assistance to states and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes.

Education
S. 669—-Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (03/30/01)—A bill to promote parental involvement and parental empowerment in public education through greater competition and choice.

H. R. 1330—-Rep. Mike Ferguson (R-NJ) / Education and the Workforce (04/03/01)—A bill to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

H.R. 1389—-Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to amend the Head Start Act to authorize the appropriation of $11.5 billion for FY2002.

H.R. 1390—-Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to provide a child care provider scholarship.

H.R. 1429—-Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to improve academic and social outcomes for students and reduce juvenile crime by providing productive activities during after-school hours.

H.R. 1430—-Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to provide states with funds to support state, regional, and local school construction

H.R. 1476—-Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) / Education and the Workforce (04/04/01)—A bill to establish or expand pre-kindergarten early learning programs.

S. 687—-Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) / Finance (04/04/01)—A bill to make higher education more affordable by providing a tax deduction for higher education expenses.

Health
H.R. 1328—-Rep. David L. Hobson (R-OH) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (03/30/01)—A bill to provide enhanced reimbursement for mammography services under Medicare.

H.R. 1354—-Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) / Energy and Commerce (04/03/01)—A bill to provide enhanced reimbursement for, and expanded capacity to, mammography services under Medicare.

H.R. 1372—-Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce (04/03/01)—A bill to prohibit the use 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. 1440—-Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-CA) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (04/04/01)—A bill to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans permit enrollees direct access to services of obstetrical and gynecological physician services without a referral.

H.R. 1485—-Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ) / Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means (04/04/01)—A bill to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultation.

S. 690—-Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) / Finance (04/04/01)—A bill to expand and improve coverage of mental health services under Medicare.

S. 704—-Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/04/01)—A bill to prohibit the cloning of humans.

S. 710—-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/05/01)—A bill to require coverage for colorectal cancer screenings.

S. 720—-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/05/01)—A bill to provide for awards by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop and operate multidisciplinary research centers regarding the impact of environmental factors on women’s health and disease prevention.

S. 723—-Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/05/01)—A bill to provide for human embryonic stem cell generation and research.

Labor
H. Con. Res. 94—-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) / Government Reform (04/03/01)—A bill to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin.

S. 684—-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/03/01)—A bill to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin.

H.R. 1489—-Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) / Education and the Workforce, Judiciary (04/04/01)—A bill to prevent the involuntary application of arbitration to claims that arise from unlawful employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.

Miscellaneous
H.R. 1470—-Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT) / Ways and Means (04/04/01)—A bill to restore funding for the Social Services Block Grant and restore the ability of states to transfer up to 10 percent of funds from the program of block grants to states for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

Reproductive Health
H.R. 1346—-Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) / Judiciary (04/03/01)—A bill to eliminate the prohibitions on the transmission of abortion-related material.

H.R. 1350—-Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) / Armed Services (04/03/01)—A bill to restore freedom of choice to women in the uniformed services serving outside the United States.

Tax Policy
S. 674—-Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) / Finance (04/02/01)—A bill to provide new tax incentives to make health insurance more affordable for small businesses.

H.R. 1340—-Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (04/03/01)—A bill to allow taxpayers to designate that part or all of any income tax refund be paid over for use in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health.

H.R. 1477—-Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) / Ways and Means (04/04/01)—A bill to provide a refundable credit to elementary and secondary school teachers for teaching expenses.