To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program for the collection of information relating to the use of children and individuals with mental disabilities as subjects in biomedical and behavioral research.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

15 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 13 Democrats

2 of 15 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.

Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Dan Burton (R-IN), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Eva Clayton (D-NC), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Earl Hilliard (D-AL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Christopher Shays (R-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Louis Stokes (D-OH), Henry Waxman (D-CA).

More from the sponsor

Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Edolphus Towns.

• H.R. 363 (105th) To amend section 2118 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to extend the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information…
• H.R. 893 (105th) Primary Care Health Practitioner Incentive Act of 1997
• H.Res. 40 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House concerning the need for accurate guidelines for breast cancer screening for women between the ages of 40…
• H.R. 1029 (105th) Insurance Claims Privacy Protection Act
• H.R. 894 (105th) Physician Assistant Incentive Act of 1997
• H.R. 4872 (105th) Certified Nurse Midwifery Medicare Services Act of 1998

Sponsor’s state and district

New York in Congress · NY-10 district