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Bills Introduced

Child Care
H.R. 2787—-Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL) / Energy and Commerce (08/02/01)—A bill to increase the availability of, and improve quality care for, children with disabilities.

Crime
H.R. 2817—-Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT) / Judiciary, Transportation and Infrastructure (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for the effective punishment of online child molesters.

S. 1355—-Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) / Judiciary (08/02/01)—A bill to prevent children from having access to firearms.

Discrimination
S. 1357—-Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) / Judiciary (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for an examination of how schools are implementing the policy guidance of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights relating to sexual harassment directed against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.

Health
H.R. 2725—-Rep. Sue W. Kelly (R-NY) / Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, Government Reform (08/02/01)—A bill to reauthorize the breast cancer research special postage stamp.

H.R. 2747—-Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) / Energy and Commerce (08/02/01)—A bill to require implementation of the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Research using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.

H.R. 2783—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Energy and Commerce (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for research on whether drugs approved for human use affect women differently than men.

H.R. 2805—-Rep. Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA) / Energy and Commerce (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for research on services for individuals with post-abortion depression and psychosis.

S. 1390—-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) / Finance (08/02/01)—A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to promote innovative outreach and enrollment efforts under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

S. 1439—-Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for a National Stem Cell Donor Bank regarding qualifying human stem cells.

H.R. 2838—-Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (09/05/01)—A bill to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct or support research using certain human pluripotent stem cells.

Labor
H.R. 2784—-Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) / Education and the Workforce, Governmental Affairs, House Administration (08/02/01)—A bill to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children’s and grandchildren’s educational and extracurricular activities and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine medical needs and to assist elderly relatives.

H.R. 2812—-Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) / Education and the Workforce (08/02/01)—A bill to increase the federal minimum wage to the value it had in 1968.

S. 1386—-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) / Finance (08/02/01)—A bill to provide for the equitable operation of welfare benefit plans for employees.

Miscellaneous
H. Res. 231—-Rep. E. Clay Shaw (R-FL) / Government Reform (08/02/01)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a National Child’s Day ought to be established.

Reproductive Health
H.R. 2763—-Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) / Judiciary (08/02/01)—A bill to protect the right to life of each born and pre-born human person in existence at fertilization.

S. 1343—-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) / Finance (08/02/01)—A bill to provide states with options for providing family planning services and supplies to individuals eligible for medical assistance under Medicaid

S. 1343—-Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) / (08/02/01)—A bill to provide states with options for providing family planning services and supplies to individuals eligible for medical assistance under Medicaid.

S. 1373—-Sen. Robert Smith (R-NH) / Judiciary (08/02/01)—A bill to protect the right to life of each born and pre-born human person in existence at fertilization.

H.R. 2866—-Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) / Armed Services (09/06/01)—A bill to restore freedom of choice to women in the uniformed services serving outside the United States.

Tax Policy
H.R. 2837—-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) / Ways and Means (09/05/01)—A bill to extend the exclusion from an employee’s gross income for employer-provided health coverage of the employee’s spouse to coverage provided to the employee’s domestic partner.

Violence Against Women
S. 1391—-Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) / Judiciary (08/02/01)—A bill to establish a grant program for Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners.