Please upgrade your Flash Player

Latest Update: Friday, July, 25th 2008

A bill to award a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D.

10/16/2007--Public Law.    (There are 3 other summaries)

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (who performed the first successful coronary bypass, pioneered the field of telemedicine, was elected the first President of Baylor College of Medicine, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction and the National Medal of Science) in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to the nation.

Latest Actions
  • 10/16/2007 - Signed by President.
  • 10/16/2007 - Became Public Law No: 110-95.
  • 10/04/2007 - Presented to President.
  • 10/02/2007 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 474.
  • 10/02/2007 - Mr. Green, Al moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

show all actions

Bill Text
File name Last Updated
S.474 Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate10/06/2007
S.474 Referred to House Committee after being Received from Senate08/31/2007
S.474 Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate08/31/2007
S.474 Introduced in Senate08/31/2007