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FEDERAL LEGISLATION

H.R.3

Diana DeGette

Energy & Commerce

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.

H.R.81

Roscoe G. Bartlett

Veterans Affairs

Armed Services

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that members of the Armed Forces and Selected Reserve may transfer certain educational assistance benefits to dependents, and for other purposes.

H.R.100

Susan A. Davis

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent veterans' contributions to education benefits from reducing Federal student financial assistance.

H.R.102

Jo Ann Davis

Education & Labor

To strengthen and expand scientific and technological education capabilities of associate-degree-granting colleges through the establishment of partnership arrangements with bachelor-degree-granting institutions.

H.R.117

Jo Ann Davis

Energy & Commerce

Ways & Means

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent hold harmless provision for sole community hospitals under the Medicare prospective payment system for covered outpatient department services.

H.R.128

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen

Education & Labor

To amend the Federal Education Right to Privacy Act to improve the access of the victims of crimes to information concerning the outcome of disciplinary proceedings by institutions of higher education.

H.R.140

Gene Green

Armed Services

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the amounts reimbursed to institutional providers of health care services under the TRICARE program to be the same as amounts reimbursed under Medicare, and to require the Secretary of Defense to contract for health care services with at least one teaching hospital in urban areas.

H.R.193

Ron Paul

Ways & Means

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make higher education more affordable by providing a full tax deduction for higher education expenses and interest on student loans.

H.R.257

Sheila Jackson-Lee

Ways & Means Judiciary

Energy & Commerce

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals reimbursed under the Medicare system to establish and implement security procedures to reduce the likelihood of infant patient abduction and baby switching, including procedures for identifying all infant patients in the hospital in a manner that ensures that it will be evident if infants are missing from the hospital.

H.R.282

Susan A. Davis

Energy & Commerce

Education & Labor

Ways & Means

To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for second opinions.

H.R.322

Roscoe G. Bartlett

Energy & Commerce

To derive human pluripotent stem cell lines using techniques that do not harm human embryos.

H.R.326

G.K. Butterfield

Energy & Commerce

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require that each State plan for medical assistance under Medicaid provide that the financial participation of the State is 100 percent of the non-Federal share of expenditures under the plan.

H.R.363

Sheila Jackson-Lee

Science & Technology

Education & Labor

Homeland Security

To authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to award grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment or expansion of cybersecurity professional development programs, and for other purposes.

H.R.378

John Conyers, Jr.

Education & Health

Energy & Commerce

To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.

H.R.381

Paul E. Gillmor

Education & Labor

To amend title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase teacher familiarity with the educational needs of gifted and talented students, and for other purposes.

H.R.412

Vernon J. Ehlers

Education & Labor

To require an independent evaluation of distance education programs.

H.R.416

Elton Gallegly

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit assistance to institutions of higher education located in States that provide in-State tuition or other forms of student financial assistance to illegal aliens.

H.R.426

Edolphus Towns

Energy & Commerce

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States that provide Medicaid prescription drug coverage to cover drugs medically necessary to treat obesity.

H.R. 427

Edolphus Towns

Energy & Commerce

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to assure coverage for legal immigrant children and pregnant women under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

H.R.457

Ron Paul

Ways & Means

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits against income tax for qualified stem cell research, the storage of qualified stem cells, and the donation of umbilical cord blood.

H.R.464

Steven R. Rothman

Energy & Commerce

Ways & Means

To provide for the provision by hospitals receiving Federal funds through the Medicare Program or Medicaid Program of emergency contraceptives to women who are survivors of sexual assault.

H.R.470

Heather Wilson

Energy & Commerce

Ways & Means

To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for continuity of Medicare prescription drug coverage for full-benefit dual eligible individuals, for Medicare prescription drug coverage of benzodiazepines and off-label uses of certain prescription drugs and biological products, for optional Medicaid coverage of Medicare prescription drug cost-sharing for full-benefit dual eligible individuals, and for authorization to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive certain determinations denying Medicare prescription drug coverage.

H.R.472

Howard P. McKeon

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to address the issues of college affordability and transparency.

H.R.506

Tammy Baldwin

Energy & Commerce

Rules

To provide for innovation in health care through State initiatives that expand coverage and access.

H.R.530

Stephen F. Lynch

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to preserve the educational status and financial resources of military personnel called to active duty.

H.R.562

Phil English

Ways & Means

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure and foster continued patient quality of care by establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.

H.R.579

Chet Edwards

Armed Services

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit certain increases in fees for military health care.

H.R.593

David G. Reichert

Energy & Commerce

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide grants to promote innovative outreach and enrollment under the Medicaid and State children's health insurance programs, and for other purposes.

H.R.597

David Wu

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to enter into agreements with private for-profit organizations for the provision of work-study employment.

H.R.629

David Wu

Education & Labor

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants for institutions of higher education serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

H.R. 677

Rush D. Holt

Energy & Commerce

To provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating the number of nurses sufficient to meet the health care needs of the United States, and for other purposes.

H.R.773

Betty McCollum

Energy & Commerce

Oversight & Reform

Education & Labor

Judiciary

Rules

To reduce and prevent the sale and use of fraudulent degrees in order to protect the integrity of valid higher education degrees that are used for Federal purposes.

H.R.1469

Tom Lantos

Foreign Relations

To establish the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation under the authorities of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.

H.R.2640

Carolyn McCarthy

Judiciary

To improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes.

H.R.2690

John F. Tierney

Education & Labor

To address rising college tuition by strengthening the compact between the States, the Federal Government, and institutions of higher education to make college more affordable.

H.R.3195

Steny H. Hoyer

Education & Labor

Judiciary

Transportation & Infrastructure

Energy & Commerce

To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

H.R.3282

Dave Camp

Education & Labor

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide continued entitlement to coverage for immunosuppressive drugs furnished to beneficiaries under the Medicare Program that have received a kidney transplant and whose entitlement to coverage would otherwise expire, and for other purposes.

H.R.3533

Eliot L. Engel

Energy & Commerce

To extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a Medicaid rule regarding graduate medical education.

H.R.3746

Howard P. "Buck" McKeon

Education & Labor

To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965.

H.R.4137

George Miller

Education & Labor

To amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

H.R.4105

Lois Capps

Energy & Commerce

Ways & Means

To impose a moratorium on the use of recovery audit contractors under the Medicare Integrity Program.

H.R.5268

Frank Pallone, Jr.

Energy & Commerce

To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.

H.RES.19

Gene Green

Energy & Commerce

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning health promotion and disease prevention.

H.RES.30

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.

Judiciary

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right of citizens of the United States to health care of equal high quality.

S.5

Harry Reid

  A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.

S.7

Harry Reid

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and other laws and provisions and urge Congress to make college more affordable through increased Federal Pell Grants and providing more favorable student loans and other benefits, and for other purposes.

S.51

Johnny Isakson

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to derive human pluripotent stem cell lines using techniques that do not knowingly harm embryos.

S.53

Daniel K. Inouye

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide health care practitioners in rural areas with training in preventive health care, including both physical and mental care, and for other purposes.

S.54

Daniel K. Inouye

Finance

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of services provided by nursing school clinics under State medicaid programs.

S.59

Daniel K. Inouye

Finance

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve access to advanced practice nurses and physician assistants under the Medicaid Program.

S.64

Daniel K. Inouye

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that social work students or social work schools are eligible for support under certain programs to assist individuals in pursuing health careers and programs of grants for training projects in geriatrics, and to establish a social work training program.

S.72

Daniel K. Inouye

Finance

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide improved reimbursement for clinical social worker services under the medicare program.

S.95

John F. Kerry

Finance

A bill to amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.

S.107

Daniel K. Inouye

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to make certain graduate programs in professional psychology eligible to participate in various health professions loan programs.

S.108

Daniel K. Inouye

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to make certain graduate programs in professional psychology eligible to participate in various health professions loan programs.

S.142

Maria Cantwell

Finance

A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to allow qualifying States to use all or any portion of their allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program for certain Medicaid expenditures.

S.158

Susan M. Collins

Finance

A bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas.

S.243

John Ensign

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system.

S.244

Judd Gregg

Judiciary

A bill to improve women's access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services.

S.301

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Finance

A bill to provide higher education assistance for nontraditional students, and for other purposes.

S.362

Norm Coleman

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to expand the number of embryonic stem cell lines available for Federally funded research.

S.464

John D. Rockefeller, IV

Finance

A bill to amend title XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the requirements regarding advance directives in order to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are complied with, and for other purposes.

S.465

Bill Nelson

Finance

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decision making so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.

S.1881

Tom Harkin

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to restore the intent and protections of that Act, and for other purposes.

S.1217

Barbara Boxer

Judiciary

A bill to enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher learning.

S.1228

Richard Durbin

Health, Education, Labor, Pensions

A bill to amend section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding law enforcement emergencies.

S.2029

Chuck Grassley

Finance

A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for transparency in the relationship between physicians and manufacturers of drugs, devices, or medical supplies for which payment is made under Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP.

S.2460

Jeff Bingaman

Finance

A bill to extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a rule regarding graduate medical education under Medicaid and to include a moratorium on the finalization of the outpatient Medicaid rule making similar changes.

S.2620

John D. Rockefeller, IV

Finance

A bill to provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes.

S. 2672

Kent Conrad

Judiciary

A bill to provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities.
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