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Key Votes
HR 3470 - Infant Mortality Pilot Programs - Key Vote
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Chris Lee voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - Sept. 23, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (324-64) - Sept. 22, 2010(Key vote)
Title: Infant Mortality Pilot Programs
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Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the appropriation of $50 million for fiscal year 2010-2011 through fiscal year 2014-2015 ($10 million for each fiscal year) to award grants to create and implement infant mortality pilot programs.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to state, county, city, territorial, or tribal health departments to create and implement infant mortality pilot programs (Sec. 2).
- Requires the Secretary, when awarding grants, to give preference to the 15 counties or groups of counties with the highest infant mortality rates in the United States in the last 3 years (Sec. 2).
- Authorizes infant mortality pilot programs do the following with grants awarded by this Act (Sec. 2):
- Develop a plan that identifies the needs of the community;
- Provide outreach to "at-risk mothers";
- Develop and implement systems for improved access, utilization, and quality of services to promote healthy pregnancies, full-term births, and healthy infancies;
- Establish a rural outreach program;
- Establish a regional public education campaign to prevent pre-term births and educate the public on infant mortality; and
- Provide for any other activities, programs, and strategies identified by the community plan.
- Requires each entity that receives a grant to submit a report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services within 1 year of receiving the grant detailing the infant mortality program, including the methodology of, and outcomes and statistics, from the program (Sec. 2).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Sept. 22, 2010
Title: Infant Mortality Pilot Programs
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- John Conyers Jr. (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Betty McCollum (MN - D)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC - D)
