H.R. 6215 would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and extend the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention and services program.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log inAdvancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to editrevise the wikiFetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and beServices Program to direct the firstSecretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a research agenda for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD); (2) facilitate surveillance, public health research, and prevention of FASD; and (3) award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to states and other entities to provide a detailed summaryservices for individuals with FASD, to educate court, law enforcement, and adoption officials on how to treat and support individuals with FASD, and to provide transitional services for individuals affected by prenatal alcohol exposure.

Requires: (1) the Secretary to provide for continuation of the bill!)Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; and (2) the Comptroller General to evaluate and make recommendations regarding appropriate federal FASD activities.

Includes within the grant program for services to individuals with FASD: (1) respite care for caretakers of such individuals, (2) recruitment and training of mentors for such individuals; and (3) educational and supportive services to families of such individuals.

Requires the Secretary of Education to direct the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to implement screening procedures and introduce curricula for educating children with FASD.

Requires the Attorney General to direct the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to: (1) educate officials on how to treat individuals with FASD; (2) study the inadequacies of the current system for dealing with such individuals; and (3) develop transitional programs for such individuals who are released from incarceration.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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(LogLatest Major Action: 6/9/2008: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to edit the wikiCommittee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the first to updateSpeaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the statusjurisdiction of the bill!)committee concerned.
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== Points in Favor ==

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