HR 10878 · 94th Congress · Families
National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
House Vote4
Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.(1975-11-20)
Plain Language Summary
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National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act - States that Congress finds pregnancy among adolescents to be a serious problem. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to designated State agencies to meet part of the cost of planning and coordinating services for school-age girls and their children. Sets forth requirements which the State plans must meet before receiving such grants, including comprehensive health care to school-age girls (associated with the continuation of pregnancy) and to their children, family planning and counseling infant and child day care and a coordinated program of social services. Directs that no identifying information of persons receiving services shall be collected by the Federal or State government. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next two succeeding fisial years to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a unit within the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to administer and coordinate the program established by this Act.…
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