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House Bills - 110th Congress
Session I | Session II
H. R. 6215 The Advancing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Research, Prevention, and Services Act
On June 9, 2008, Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ) introduced H.R. 6215, the Advancing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Research, Prevention, and Services Act, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program. H.R. 6215 would require the NIH Director, in coordination with the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, to establish a research agenda for FASD and award grants, contracts or cooperative agreements to public or private nonprofit entities to carry out the agenda. H.R. 6215 would reauthorize the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, to coordinate activities among the Federal agencies. H.R. 6215 was referred to the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and Education and Labor. |
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