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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Nov 18, 2013
Poison Center Network Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize through FY2019: (1) a poison control nationwide-toll free phone number; and (2) a national media campaign to educate the public and health care providers about poison prevention and the availability of poison control center resources in local communities and to conduct advertising campaigns about the nationwide toll-free number.
Revises and reauthorizes through FY2019 a grant program for accredited (currently, certified) poison control centers. Allows grant funds to be used to research, improve, and enhance the communications and response capability and capacity of the poison control centers to facilitate increased access to such centers through the integration and modernization of communications and data systems.
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Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] · D–WA
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 281.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Harkin without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
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