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Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Children, Community health services, Dentistry, Dentists, Education, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Health policy, Higher education, Medical care, Medical education, Medical personnel, Medicine, Mental health services, Minorities, Minorities in medicine, Minority health, Psychologists, Public contracts
Latest Action: 11/19/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10671-10674) Bill TextA bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to health professions education, and for other purposes. 11/19/2008--Introduced. Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions related to: (1) addressing workforce shortages for primary care health professions; and (2) assisting underrepresented minorities or disadvantaged students to enter health professions.Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants for the training of primary care physicians teaching in community-based settings; (2) provide for programs that improve clinical teaching and research in primary care; (3) provide for community health needs assessments; (4) provide for the establishment of Primary Care Training Institutes within academic health centers; and (5) provide for approved professional training programs in the field of general or pediatric dentistry.Revises provisions governing area [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Children, Community health services, Dentistry, Dentists, Education, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Health policy, Higher education, Medical care, Medical education, Medical personnel, Medicine, Mental health services, Minorities, Minorities in medicine, Minority health, Psychologists, Public contracts
Latest Action: 11/20/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to health professions education, and for other purposes. 11/20/2008--Introduced. Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions related to: (1) addressing workforce shortages for primary care health professions; and (2) assisting underrepresented minorities or disadvantaged students to enter health professions.Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants for the training of primary care physicians teaching in community-based settings; (2) provide for programs that improve clinical teaching and research in primary care; (3) provide for community health needs assessments; (4) provide for the establishment of Primary Care Training Institutes within academic health centers; and (5) provide for approved professional training programs in the field of general or pediatric dentistry.Revises provisions governing area health [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/29/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10074-10075) Bill TextA bill to improve research on health hazards in housing, to enhance the capacity of programs to reduce such hazards, to require outreach, and for other purposes. 9/29/2008--Introduced. Research, Hazard Intervention, and National Outreach for Healthier Homes Act of 2008 - Directs the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the health effects of housing-related health hazards for which limited research or understanding of causes or associations exists. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement studies by the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control of the assessment, prevention, and control of housing-related health hazards. Directs the Administrator of the EPA to study how sustainable building features in existing housing affect the quality of the indoor environment, the prevalence of housing-related health hazards, [...] show full description
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a State plan option under Medicaid to provide an all-inclusive program of care for children who are medically fragile or have one or more chronic conditions that impede their ability to function. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Medically Fragile Children's Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a program of all-inclusive care for medically fragile children as a Medicaid state plan option. Makes a child eligible if he or she is: (1) medically fragile based on health status and related indicators or is diagnosed as having one or more chronic conditions; (2) requires daily monitoring of a significant medical condition necessitating overall care planning in order to achieve or maintain optimum health and developmental status, and achieve community integration to the maximum extent possible; and (3) requires both medical assistance and at least two additional services furnished [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Armed forces, Autism, Children, Defense policy, Families, Health policy, Managed care, Medical care, Medicine, Military dependents, Retired military personnel, Retiree health benefits, Veterans
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Bill TextA bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize extended benefits for certain autistic dependents of certain retirees. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Revises TRICARE (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program) to authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide extended health care services and treatment, by way of contract with private providers, for dependent autism-diagnosed children of military retirees not entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and not enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of such title.
Also tagged in: Case management, Children, Disabled, Families, Foster home care, Health policy, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical screening, Medical tests, Medicine, Mental health services, Preventive medicine, Rehabilitation of the disabled, Welfare
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the provision of rehabilitation services and case management and targeted case management services under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Medicaid Services Restoration Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend medical assistance coverage to therapeutic foster care services.Allows reasonable and efficient payment methodologies, including fee-for-service payments, case rates, daily rates, or other forms of capitated payment, as means of reimbursement for rehabilitative services. Includes medical or remedial services for attainment and retention of functional status among rehabilitative services.Includes among inpatient psychiatric hospital services for children early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services.Allows payment for medical assistance for diagnostic, screening, preventive, and rehabilitative [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aged, Business, Caregivers, Children, Community organization, Day care, Dental care, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Families, Family leave, Federal employees, Geriatrics, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Grandparents, Group homes, Health policy, Labor, Leave of absence, Married people, Medical care, Medicine, Nursing homes, Parent-school relationships, Physical examinations, Preschool education, Secondary education, Sick leave, Small business, Student activities, Students, Vaccination, Welfare
Latest Action: 09/30/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2164) Bill TextTo amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine family medical needs and to assist elderly relatives, and for other purposes. 9/29/2008--Introduced. Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2008 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to cover employees at worksites that employ fewer than 50 employees, but not fewer than 25 employees. Continues to exempt from FMLA coverage employees at worksites that employ fewer than 25 employees (currently 50), if the total number of employees employed by that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is fewer than 25 (currently 50).Allows an employee covered by FMLA to take up to 4 hours during any 30-day period, and up to 24 hours during any 12-month period, of parental involvement [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Appropriations, Authorization, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Child welfare, Children, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Entitlements, Federal aid programs, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal budgets, Health policy, Medical care, Medicine, Secondary education, Welfare
Latest Action: 09/29/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on the Budget. Bill TextTo amend title 31 of the United States Code to require that Federal children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed in the President's budget. 9/29/2008--Introduced. Children's Budget Act - Requires the President's annual budget to Congress to include a detailed, separate analysis for the prior fiscal year, the current fiscal year, the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, and the ensuing fiscal year identifying the amounts of gross and net appropriations or obligational authority and outlays directed to children and children's programs within the United States and territories.
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a State plan option under Medicaid to provide an all-inclusive program of care for children who are medically fragile or have one or more chronic conditions that impede their ability to function. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Medically Fragile Children's Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a program of all-inclusive care for medically fragile children as a Medicaid state plan option. Makes a child eligible if he or she is: (1) medically fragile based on health status and related indicators or is diagnosed as having one or more chronic conditions; (2) requires daily monitoring of a significant medical condition necessitating overall care planning in order to achieve or maintain optimum health and developmental status, and achieve community integration to the maximum extent possible; and (3) requires both medical assistance and at least two additional services furnished [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Budgets, Children, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Employee training, Employment of the disadvantaged, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Epidemiology, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Government information, Government paperwork, Grants-in-aid, Hazardous substances, Home repair and improvement, Housing, Job training, Labor, Law, Lead, Lead poisoning, Licenses, Medical care, Medicine, Paints and varnishes, Pregnant women, Residential rehabilitation, Risk, Soil pollution, Standards, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-515. Additional views filed. Bill Text An original bill to protect pregnant women and children from dangerous lead exposures.
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