Prescribe A Book Act

S 1126 Prescribe A Book Act

US Congress 113th Congress

Prescribe A Book Act
S.1126


About S.1126

Prescribe A Book Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of Pediatric Early Literacy Programs, through which:

  • (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer parents developmentally appropriate recommendations and strategies for doing so;
  • (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and
  • (3) volunteers in health care facility waiting areas read to children and show parents the techniques and pleasures of sharing books

Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.

  

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Introduced 06/17/2013

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History

Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S4060-4061)

06/10/2013

Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions.

06/10/2013