Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention Act of 2003

Summary

Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends Public Health Service Act provisions concerning the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities to add disabilities and health to categories of data with regard to which the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to collect, analyze, and make available. Requires the Secretary to conduct research on and promote the prevention of birth defects and disabilities and to support a National Spina Bifida Program to prevent and reduce suffering from the nation's most common permanently disabling birth defect. Removes certain provisions regarding data collection, including one requiring the Secretary to collect and analyze data by gender and ethnic and racial group. Modifies reporting requirements. Declares that certain data and information collected under the Act shall be subject to a specified provision of the General Education Provisions Act pertaining to privacy. Requires that the members of the advisory committee appointed by the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health that have expertise in birth defects, developmental disabilities, and disabilities and health shall be transferred to the National Center on Birth Defects on the date of the enactment of this Act.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 13 February 2003

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• Reported in House (PDF)

  Reported in House · EN · 13 February 2003

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 13 February 2003

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 28 January 2003

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  Introduced in House · EN · 28 January 2003

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 January 2003

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