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The Education Begins at Home Act (EBAH) is a bill to expand programs of early childhood home visitation that increase school readiness, child abuse and neglect prevention, and early identification of developmental and health delays, including potential mental health concerns, and for other purposes intended to give many more children a quality early childhood experience with the help of home visitation services. The new funds will help states establish or expand quality home visitation programs already underway in communities, and will target some specific groups of children and families for assistance. EBAH establishes the first, dedicated federal funding stream to support parents of young children through quality home visitation. 

Senate bill (S. 667), Education Begins at Home Act,  was reintroduced in the 110th Congress on February 16, 2007 by Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Senators who have signed on in support of the bill are  Evan Bayh, IN; Jeff Bingaman, NM; Ben Cardin, MD; Susan Collins, ME; Richard Durbin, IL;  John Kerry, MA; Frank Lautenberg, NJ; Claire McCaskill, MO; Pat Roberts, KS; John Rockefeller, WV; Gordon Smith, OR; Olympia Snowe, ME.  The bill is currently referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee. 

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