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1. H.CON.RES.8 : Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to promoting coverage of individuals under long-term care insurance.
Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (80)
Committees: House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/22/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

2. H.CON.RES.290 : Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2001, revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2005.
Sponsor: Rep Kasich, John R. [OH-12] (introduced 3/20/2000)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Budget; Senate Budget
House Reports: 106-530; Latest Conference Report: 106-577 (in Congressional Record H2206-2235)
Latest Major Action: 4/13/2000 Conference report agreed to in Senate. Status: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 48. Record Vote Number: 85.

3. H.CON.RES.412 : Promoting a national dialog on long-term care financing reform.
Sponsor: Rep Pomeroy, Earl [ND] (introduced 9/27/2000)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 11/14/2000 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

4. H.R.76 : 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.
Sponsor: Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Judiciary; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

5. H.R.161 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to restrict imposition of Medicaid liens and Medicaid estate recovery for long-term care services in the case of certain individuals who have received benefits under long-term care insurance policies for at least 3 years, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the carryover of reimbursement maximums for flexible spending arrangements, to allow the reimbursement of long-term care insurance premiums by FSA's, and to repeal the inclusion in income of long-term care coverage provided through FSA's.
Sponsor: Rep Hill, Rick [MT] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/20/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

6. H.R.298 : To improve health status in medically disadvantaged communities through comprehensive community-based managed care programs.
Sponsor: Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/19/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

7. H.R.301 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to reduce infant mortality through improvement of coverage of services to pregnant women and infants under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/29/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

8. H.R.302 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require State Medicaid Programs to provide coverage of screening mammography and screening pap smears.
Sponsor: Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/29/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

9. H.R.304 : To improve health status in medically disadvantaged communities through comprehensive community-based managed care programs.
Sponsor: Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/20/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

10. H.R.308 : To improve Federal enforcement against health care fraud and abuse.
Sponsor: Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced 1/6/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 1/20/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.

11. H.R.351 : To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from treating any Medicaid-related funds recovered as part of State litigation from one or more tobacco companies as an overpayment under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Bilirakis, Michael [FL-9] (introduced 1/19/1999)      Cosponsors (137)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/29/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

12. H.R.414 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the requirements for the admission of nonimmigrant nurses who will practice in health professional shortage areas.
Sponsor: Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] (introduced 1/19/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 2/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

13. H.R.441 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the requirements for the admission of nonimmigrant nurses who will practice in health professional shortage areas.
Sponsor: Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] (introduced 2/2/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary; Senate Judiciary
House Reports: 106-135
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-95 [GPO: Text, PDF]

14. H.R.442 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for Hawaii to 59.8 percent.
Sponsor: Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] (introduced 2/2/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

15. H.R.458 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow States to use the funds available under the State children's health insurance program for an enhanced matching rate for coverage of additional children under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Dunn, Jennifer [WA-8] (introduced 2/2/1999)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

16. H.R.470 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the higher Federal medical assistance percentage for payment for Indian Health service facilities to urban Indian health programs under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 2/2/1999)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

17. H.R.524 : To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography for any class of covered individuals if the coverage or plans include coverage for diagnostic mammography for such class, and to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of annual screening mammography.
Sponsor: Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] (introduced 2/3/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

18. H.R.540 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit transfers or discharges of residents of nursing facilities as a result of a voluntary withdrawal from participation in the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Davis, Jim [FL-11] (introduced 2/3/1999)      Cosponsors (60)
Committees: House Commerce
House Reports: 106-44
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-4 [GPO: Text, PDF]

19. H.R.545 : To combat fraud in, and to improve the administration of, the disability programs under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Nancy L. [CT-6] (introduced 2/3/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

20. H.R.557 : To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide a safe harbor under the anti-kickback statute for hospital restocking of certain ambulance drugs and supplies.
Sponsor: Rep Ney, Robert W. [OH-18] (introduced 2/3/1999)      Cosponsors (40)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/24/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

21. H.R.567 : To assure that the services of a nonemergency department physician are available to hospital patients 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week in all non-Federal hospitals with at least 100 licensed beds.
Sponsor: Rep Visclosky, Peter J. [IN-1] (introduced 2/3/1999)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 2/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

22. H.R.610 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government Medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if the State uses the funds only for programs to reduce smoking and for public health purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Weygand, Robert A. [RI-2] (introduced 2/4/1999)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/1/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

23. H.R.631 : To combat fraud in, and to improve the administration of, the disability programs under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Nancy L. [CT-6] (introduced 2/9/1999)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 2/10/1999 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.

24. H.R.632 : To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on mortality and adverse outcome rates of Medicare patients of providers of anesthesia services, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Weldon, Dave [FL-15] (introduced 2/9/1999)      Cosponsors (115)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/11/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

25. H.R.723 : To establish a program of pharmacy assistance fee for elderly persons who have no health insurance coverage.
Sponsor: Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. [RI-1] (introduced 2/11/1999)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

26. H.R.797 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to exempt disabled individuals from being required to enroll with a managed care entity under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Lucas, Ken [KY-4] (introduced 2/23/1999)      Cosponsors (92)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

27. H.R.821 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of disabled children, and individuals who became disabled as children, without regard to income or assets.
Sponsor: Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] (introduced 2/24/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

28. H.R.827 : To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve the coverage of needy children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] (introduced 2/24/1999)      Cosponsors (142)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/11/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

29. H.R.853 : To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for joint resolutions on the budget, reserve funds for emergency spending, strengthened enforcement of budgetary decisions, increased accountability for Federal spending, accrual budgeting for Federal insurance programs, mitigation of the bias in the budget process toward higher spending, modifications in paygo requirements when there is an on-budget surplus, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Nussle, Jim [IA-2] (introduced 2/25/1999)      Cosponsors (32)
Committees: House Budget; House Rules; House Appropriations
House Reports: 106-198 Part 1, 106-198 Part 2, 106-198 Part 3
Latest Major Action: 5/16/2000 Failed of passage/not agreed to in House. Status: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 166 - 250 (Roll no. 189).

30. H.R.854 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for the presumptive eligibility of Medicare beneficiaries for the qualified Medicare beneficiary and special low-income Medicare beneficiary programs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Bentsen, Ken [TX-25] (introduced 2/25/1999)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/11/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

31. H.R.909 : To provide funding for States to correct Y2K problems in computers that are used to administer State and local government programs.
Sponsor: Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] (introduced 3/2/1999)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 3/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.

32. H.R.989 : To amend the Public Health Service Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans and managed care plans under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs provide coverage for hospital lengths of stay as determined by the attending health care provider in consultation with the patient.
Sponsor: Rep Coburn, Tom A. [OK-2] (introduced 3/4/1999)      Cosponsors (10)
Committees: House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 3/30/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

33. H.R.1022 : To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to States to correct Y2K problems in computers that are used to administer State and local government programs.
Sponsor: Rep Underwood, Robert A. [GU] (introduced 3/4/1999)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 3/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.

34. H.R.1050 : To establish a living wage, jobs for all policy by instituting overall planning to develop those living wage job opportunities essential to fulfillment of basic rights and responsibilities in a healthy democratic society; by facilitating conversion from unneeded military programs to civilian activities that meet important human needs; by producing a Federal capital budget through appropriate distinctions between operating and investment outlays; and by reducing poverty, violence, and the undue concentration of income, wealth, and power, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] (introduced 3/10/1999)      Cosponsors (44)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce; House Budget; House Armed Services; House Rules
Latest Major Action: 3/26/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.

35. H.R.1068 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include a definition of audiologist.
Sponsor: Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] (introduced 3/10/1999)      Cosponsors (15)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/30/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

36. H.R.1070 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide medical assistance for certain women screened and found to have breast or cervical cancer under a federally funded screening program.
Sponsor: Rep Lazio, Rick [NY-2] (introduced 3/11/1999)      Cosponsors (317)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
House Reports: 106-486
Latest Major Action: 5/26/2000 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 353.

37. H.R.1085 : To improve the health of children.
Sponsor: Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] (introduced 3/11/1999)      Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 4/9/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

38. H.R.1091 : To amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with diabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide beneficiaries with disabilities meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hulshof, Kenny C. [MO-9] (introduced 3/11/1999)      Cosponsors (22)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

39. H.R.1133 : To provide for comprehensive reform for managed health care plans.
Sponsor: Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] (introduced 3/16/1999)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 4/9/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

40. H.R.1141 : Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] (introduced 3/17/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Appropriations
House Reports: 106-64; Latest Conference Report: 106-143 (in Congressional Record H3175-3202)
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-31 [GPO: Text, PDF]

41. H.R.1149 : To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to expand and clarify the requirements regarding advance directives in order to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are complied with, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Levin, Sander M. [MI-12] (introduced 3/17/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

42. H.R.1167 : To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide for further self-governance by Indian tribes, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, George [CA-7] (introduced 3/17/1999)      Cosponsors (29)
Committees: House Resources
House Reports: 106-477
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-260 [GPO: Text, PDF]

43. H.R.1180 : To amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lazio, Rick [NY-2] (introduced 3/18/1999)      Cosponsors (249)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
House Reports: 106-220 Part 1; Latest Conference Report: 106-478 (in Congressional Record H12174-12222)
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-170 [GPO: Text, PDF]

44. H.R.1200 : To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 3/18/1999)      Cosponsors (21)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Government Reform; House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

45. H.R.1224 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for comprehensive financing for graduate medical education.
Sponsor: Rep Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD-3] (introduced 3/23/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

46. H.R.1232 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government Medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if the State uses a portion of those funds for programs to reduce the use of tobacco products and to assist in the economic diversification of tobacco farming communities.
Sponsor: Rep Hansen, James V. [UT-1] (introduced 3/23/1999)      Cosponsors (9)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

47. H.R.1261 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XIX of the Social Security Act to promote the purchase of private long-term care insurance by providing tax deductibility, State Medicaid flexibility, and information dissemination.
Sponsor: Rep Hobson, David L. [OH-7] (introduced 3/24/1999)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

48. H.R.1289 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of the Federal government Medicaid share of tobacco-related State settlements under certain conditions.
Sponsor: Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-29] (introduced 3/25/1999)      Cosponsors (16)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

49. H.R.1298 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit public schools and certain other entities to determine presumptive eligibility for children under the Medicaid Program.
Sponsor: Rep Bentsen, Ken [TX-25] (introduced 3/25/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

50. H.R.1304 : To ensure and foster continued patient safety and quality of care by making the antitrust laws apply to negotiations between groups of health care professionals and health plans and health insurance issuers in the same manner as such laws apply to collective bargaining by labor organizations under the National Labor Relations Act.
Sponsor: Rep Campbell, Tom [CA-15] (introduced 3/25/1999)      Cosponsors (220)
Committees: House Judiciary; Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
House Reports: 106-625
Latest Major Action: 7/27/2000 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

51. H.R.1313 : To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to restrict the use of physical and chemical restraints and seclusion in certain facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds, to require recording and reporting of information on that use and on sentinel events occurring in those facilities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] (introduced 3/25/1999)      Cosponsors (58)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/12/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

52. H.R.1344 : To promote and improve access to health care services in rural areas.
Sponsor: Rep Nussle, Jim [IA-2] (introduced 3/25/1999)      Cosponsors (104)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 4/19/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

53. H.R.1399 : To amend title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide States with the option to allow legal immigrant pregnant women, children, and blind or disabled medically needy individuals to be eligible for medical assistance under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Levin, Sander M. [MI-12] (introduced 4/14/1999)      Cosponsors (91)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce; House Agriculture; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/5/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

54. H.R.1455 : To amend title XI of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a mechanism to promote the provision of Medicare cost-sharing assistance to eligible low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 4/15/1999)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

55. H.R.1482 : To reauthorize the Welfare-To-Work program to provide additional resources and flexibility to improve the administration of the program.
Sponsor: Rep Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD-3] (introduced 4/20/1999)      Cosponsors (15)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/30/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

56. H.R.1495 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under the Medicare Program.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 4/20/1999)      Cosponsors (91)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Note: On 2/16/2000, a motion was filed to discharge the Rules Committee from consideration of H.Res. 372 , which provides for the consideration of H.R. 1495 . A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action. (Discharge Petition No. 106-8: text with signatures.)

57. H.R.1514 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for mandatory coverage of services furnished by nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists under State Medicaid plans.
Sponsor: Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] (introduced 4/21/1999)      Cosponsors (30)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

58. H.R.1529 : To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to modify the treatment of certain patient days for purposes of determining the amount of disproportionate share adjustment payments to hospitals under the Medicare Program.
Sponsor: Rep English, Phil [PA-21] (introduced 4/22/1999)      Cosponsors (20)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 4/28/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

59. H.R.1545 : To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for improved data collection and evaluations of State Children's Health Insurance Programs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Stupak, Bart [MI-1] (introduced 4/22/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

60. H.R.1591 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV.
Sponsor: Rep Pelosi, Nancy [CA-8] (introduced 4/28/1999)      Cosponsors (73)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/17/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

61. H.R.1610 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to reinstate the DSH allotment level for Minnesota to the fiscal year 1995 level.
Sponsor: Rep Luther, Bill [MN-6] (introduced 4/28/1999)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

62. H.R.1624 : To improve the quality of housing for elderly individuals and families, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep LaFalce, John J. [NY-29] (introduced 4/29/1999)      Cosponsors (32)
Committees: House Banking and Financial Services
Latest Major Action: 5/13/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

63. H.R.1661 : To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act and part 7 of subtitle B of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish standards for the health quality improvement of children in managed care plans and other health plans.
Sponsor: Rep Morella, Constance A. [MD-8] (introduced 5/4/1999)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 5/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

64. H.R.1672 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States Medicaid plans to provide for payment for costs of medical services under individualized education programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act after they exceed $3,500 in a school year.
Sponsor: Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] (introduced 5/4/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/17/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

65. H.R.1716 : To provide for a study of long-term care needs in the 21st century.
Sponsor: Rep Bilirakis, Michael [FL-9] (introduced 5/6/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 5/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

66. H.R.1793 : To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for individual security accounts funded by employee and employer Social Security payroll deductions, to extend the solvency of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Kolbe, Jim [AZ-5] (introduced 5/13/1999)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Rules
Latest Major Action: 5/20/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

67. H.R.1796 : To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a chronic disease prescription drug benefit under the Medicare Program.
Sponsor: Rep Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD-3] (introduced 5/13/1999)      Cosponsors (13)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 5/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

68. H.R.1802 : To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide States with more funding and greater flexibility in carrying out programs designed to help children make the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Nancy L. [CT-6] (introduced 5/13/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce; Senate Finance
House Reports: 106-182 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 11/19/1999 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

69. H.R.1856 : To direct the Attorney General to establish a panel to study the issue of Federal benefits received by persons convicted of drug offenses.
Sponsor: Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] (introduced 5/18/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/8/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

70. H.R.1860 : To require managed care organizations to contract with providers in medically underserved areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Christensen, Donna MC [VI] (introduced 5/19/1999)      Cosponsors (42)
Committees: House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/18/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

71. H.R.1862 : To combat nursing home fraud and abuse, increase protections for victims of telemarketing fraud, enhance safeguards for pension plans and health care benefit programs, and enhance penalties for crimes against seniors, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 5/19/1999)      Cosponsors (27)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

72. H.R.1919 : To require the Commissioner of Soical Security to provide prisoner information obtained from the States to Federal and federally assisted benefit programs as a means of preventing the erroneous provision of benefits to prisoners.
Sponsor: Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] (introduced 5/25/1999)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 6/8/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

73. H.R.1920 : To establish a program to provide grants to expand the availability of public health dentistry programs in medically underserved areas, health professional shortage areas, and other Federally-defined areas that lack primary dental services.
Sponsor: Rep Barrett, Thomas M. [WI-5] (introduced 5/25/1999)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/24/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

74. H.R.1984 : To prevent the abuse of elderly people.
Sponsor: Rep Crowley, Joseph [NY-7] (introduced 5/27/1999)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce; House Judiciary; House Banking and Financial Services; House Ways and Means; House Commerce; House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 6/23/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

75. H.R.1996 : To ensure that children enrolled in Medicaid and other Federal means-tested programs at highest risk for lead poisoning are identified and treated, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Menendez, Robert [NJ-13] (introduced 5/27/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 6/23/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

76. H.R.2012 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under the Medicare Program.
Sponsor: Rep Deutsch, Peter [FL-20] (introduced 6/7/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/24/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

77. H.R.2102 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a deduction for qualified long-term care insurance premiums and a credit for individuals with long-term care needs, to provide for an individual and employer educational campaign concerning long-term care insurance, and to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to expand State long-term care partnerships by exempting 75 percent of partnership assets from Medicaid estate recovery.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Nancy L. [CT-6] (introduced 6/9/1999)      Cosponsors (30)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 6/24/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

78. H.R.2114 : To establish a Medicare administrative fee for submission of paper claims.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 6/9/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 7/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

79. H.R.2115 : To establish a demonstration project to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to selectively contract for the provision of medical care to Medicare beneficiaries.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 6/9/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 7/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

80. H.R.2188 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a public response to the public health crisis of pain, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hooley, Darlene [OR-5] (introduced 6/14/1999)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

81. H.R.2228 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access to health insurance and Medicare benefits for individuals ages 55 to 65 to be fully funded through premimums and anti-fraud provisions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 6/15/1999)      Cosponsors (89)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

82. H.R.2240 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise payment amounts to home health agencies under the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Coyne, William J. [PA-14] (introduced 6/16/1999)      Cosponsors (34)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 7/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

83. H.R.2325 : To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to changing the requirements for surety bonds of home health agencies, durable medical equipment suppliers, and others under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 6/23/1999)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 7/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

84. H.R.2333 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove special financial limitations that apply to Puerto Rico and certain other territories under the Medicaid Program with respect to medical assistance for Medicare cost-sharing and for veterans.
Sponsor: Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. [PR] (introduced 6/23/1999)      Cosponsors (32)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

85. H.R.2341 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a new prospective payment system for Federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
Sponsor: Rep Burr, Richard [NC-5] (introduced 6/24/1999)      Cosponsors (262)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 7/7/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

86. H.R.2455 : To establish Federal penalties for prohibited uses and disclosures of individually identifiable health information, to establish a right in an individual to inspect and copy their own health information, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] (introduced 7/1/1999)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means; House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 7/21/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

87. H.R.2490 : Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Kolbe, Jim [AZ-5] (introduced 7/13/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Appropriations
House Reports: 106-231; Latest Conference Report: 106-319 (in Congressional Record H8202-8225)
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 106-58 [GPO: Text, PDF]

88. H.R.2587 : Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [OK-5] (introduced 7/22/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Appropriations
House Reports: 106-249; Latest Conference Report: 106-299 (in Congressional Record H7384-7413)
Latest Major Action: 9/28/1999 Vetoed by President.

89. H.R.2614 : To amend the Small Business Investment Act to make improvements to the certified development company program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Talent, Jim [MO-2] (introduced 7/27/1999)      Cosponsors (17)
Committees: House Small Business; Senate Small Business
House Reports: 106-278; Senate Reports: 106-280; Latest Conference Report: 106-1004 (in Congressional Record H10909-11188)
Latest Major Action: 10/26/2000 Conference report agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 237 - 174, 1 Present (Roll no. 560).
Note: The H.R. 2614 conference report incorporated several bills. This included H.R. 5538 - Minimum Wage; H.R. 5542 - Taxpayer Relief; H.R. 5543 - Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection; H.R. 5544 - Pain Relief Promotion; and H.R. 5545 - Small Business Reauthorization. H.R. 5661 was a subsequent Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection bill. H.R. 5667 was a subsequent Small Business Reauthorization bill. H.R. 4577 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2001, incorporated by reference the provisions of H.R. 5661 , H.R. 5667 , and other bills. H.R. 4577 became Public Law 106-554 on 12/21/2000.

90. H.R.2624 : To protect women's reproductive health and constitutional right to choice, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] (introduced 7/27/1999)      Cosponsors (48)
Committees: House Commerce; House Judiciary; House Education and the Workforce; House Armed Services; House Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 9/10/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.

91. H.R.2627 : To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to prevent abuse of recipients of long-term care services under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 7/27/1999)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/27/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

92. H.R.2650 : To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve and streamline the physician self-referral law.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 7/29/1999)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Commerce; House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 8/27/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

93. H.R.2689 : To impose a one-year moratorium on promulgation of new rules by the Health Care Financing Administration.
Sponsor: Rep Ney, Robert W. [OH-18] (introduced 8/3/1999)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 8/27/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

94. H.R.2691 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide a range of long-term care services.
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] (introduced 8/3/1999)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce; House Government Reform; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 9/17/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning.

95. H.R.2771 : To establish a medical education trust fund, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] (introduced 8/5/1999)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Ways and Means; House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 9/10/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

96. H.R.2800 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to correct the DSH Allotments for Minnesota, New Mexico, and Wyoming under the Medicaid Program for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Heather [NM-1] (introduced 8/5/1999)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 8/27/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

97. H.R.2807 : To amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to promote identification of children eligible for benefits under, and enrollment of children in, the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance programs.
Sponsor: Rep Carson, Julia [IN-10] (introduced 9/8/1999)      Cosponsors (14)
Committees: House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 9/8/1999 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

98. H.R.2828 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require criminal background checks on drivers providing Medicaid medical assistance transportation services.
Sponsor: Rep Hooley, Darlene [OR-5] (introduced 9/9/1999)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 10/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

99. H.R.2840 : To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment and operation of asthma treatment services for children, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] (introduced 9/13/1999)      Cosponsors (9)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 10/8/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

100. H.R.2852 : To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the prorating of Medicaid beneficiary contributions in the case of partial coverage of nursing facility services during a month.
Sponsor: Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] (introduced 9/14/1999)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Commerce
Latest Major Action: 10/6/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

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