H.R. 179: Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act - Please support with a call or letter.

[pinto]

Summary

1/6/2009--Introduced.

Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act - Provides that nothing shall prohibit the use of federal funds to establish or carry out a program of distributing sterile syringes to reduce the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and viral hepatitis.

2009-2010 Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act

To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis.

Sponsor: Rep. José Serrano

Cosponsors

Rep. Doris Matsui
Rep. Bob Filner
Del. Donna Christensen
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Rep. Ronald Paul
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep. Neil Abercrombie
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Barbara Lee
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Rep. William Delahunt
Rep. Maxine Waters
Rep. Phil Hare
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Rep. Charles Rangel
Del. Eleanor Norton
Rep. Sam Farr
Rep. Alcee Hastings
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Rep. Jesse Jackson
Rep. Michael Capuano
Rep. James Moran
Rep. Edolphus Towns
Rep. Howard Berman
Rep. James McDermott
Rep. Chaka Fattah
Rep. Henry Waxman

Status: Introduced Jan 6, 2009

Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments
Reported by Committee (pending)
Voted on in House (pending)
Voted on in Senate (pending)
Signed by President (pending)

This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.

Last Action: Jan 6, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-179

[JackBeck]

1. There is overwhelming evidence that needle exchange and ESAP programs

Are effective tools for harm reduction. Traveling tomorrow to Denver, pinto, but will forward this to my coworkers and ED to see if we can get a letter campaign started over here on the other coast.

[pinto]

2. Thanks.

:hi:

[H2O Man]

3. Very good.

Nominated.

[pinto]

4. Not sure why it's been relegated to House Energy and Commerce Committee. Yet, a good,

blunt bill to support basic, street level public health. Really worth supporting.

Thanks for the kick.

:thumbsup: