Child Protection
H.R. 2688—-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)/Judiciary (7/28/11)—A bill to require certification of state and law enforcement agency reports related to missing children, to require that certain information be provided to individuals reporting a missing child, and for other purposes.
Education
H.R. 2691—-Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ)/Education and the Workforce (7/28/11)—A bill to encourage and support parent, family, and community involvement in schools, to provide needed integrated services and comprehensive supports to children, and to ensure that schools are centers of communities, for the ultimate goal of assisting students to stay in school, become successful learners, and improve academic achievement.
Family Support
S. 1435—-Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)/Finance (7/28/11)—A bill to exclude child care from the determination of the five-year limit on assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2686—-Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY)/Ways and Means (7/28/11)—A bill to exclude child care from the determination of the five-year limit on assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and for other purposes.
Health
S. Res. 242—-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)/Considered and agreed to (7/29/11)—A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
International
H.R. 2639—-Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)/Foreign Affairs (7/25/11)—A bill to prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
H.R. 2699—-Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)/Foreign Affairs (7/29/11)—A bill to establish policies and procedures in the Peace Corps to provide for the safety and security of volunteers from rape and sexual assault, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2705—-Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)/Foreign Affairs (7/29/11)—A bill to provide assistance for developing countries to promote quality basic education and to establish the achievement of quality universal basic education in all developing countries as an objective of United States foreign assistance policy, and for other purposes.
Reproductive Health
S. 1415—-Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (7/26/11)—A bill to establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception, and for other purposes.
S. 1437—-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (7/28/11)—A bill to authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out programs to provide youth in racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities the information and skills needed to reduce teenage pregnancies.
S. 1440—-Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (7/28/11)—A bill to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity.
H.R. 2678—-Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)/Energy and Commerce (7/28/11)—A bill to authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out programs to provide youth in racial or ethnic minority or immigrant communities the information and skills needed to reduce teenage pregnancies.
H.R. 2679—-Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)/Energy and Commerce (7/28/11)—A bill to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity.
H.R. 2704—-Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)/Judiciary, Energy and Commerce (7/29/11)—A bill to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections in correctional facilities, and for other purposes.
Violence Against Women
S. 1447—-Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (7/28/11)—A bill to amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to authorize the use of grant funds for dating violence prevention, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2689—-Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)/Education and the Workforce (7/28/11)—A bill to amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to authorize the use of grant funds for dating violence prevention, and for other purposes.
