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To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care. 9/24/2008--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) National Pain Care Policy Act of 2008 - (Sec. 2) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to seek to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to convene a Conference on Pain to: (1) increase the recognition of pain as a significant public health problem in the United States; (2) evaluate the adequacy of assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic pain in the general population and in identified demographics groups that may be disproportionately affected by inadequacies; (3) identify barriers to appropriate pain care; and (4) establish an agenda for action to reduce such barriers and significantly improve the state of pain care research, education, and clinical care in the United States. Allows the Secretary to enter into an agreement with another appropriate entity if the Institute [...] show full description
- 10/02/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 09/25/2008 - Received in the Senate.
- 09/24/2008 - Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9406)
- 09/24/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 9/23/2008 H8674-8675)
- 09/24/2008 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
show all actions- 10/02/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 09/25/2008 - Received in the Senate.
- 09/24/2008 - Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9406)
- 09/24/2008 - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 9/23/2008 H8674-8675)
- 09/24/2008 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 09/23/2008 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-871.
- 09/23/2008 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 567.
- 09/23/2008 - Mr. Pallone moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 09/23/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8674-8676; text of measure as introduced: CR H8674-8675)
- 09/23/2008 - DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2994.
- 09/23/2008 - At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Burgess objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
- 09/23/2008 - Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8674-8676)
- 09/17/2008 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- 09/17/2008 - Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- 07/11/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- 07/11/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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