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Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4034-4035) Bill TextTo provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. 2/27/2007--Introduced. American Health Security Act of 2007 - Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Requires each state health security program to prohibit the sale of health insurance in that state that duplicates benefits provided under the program. Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. 4/19/2007--Introduced. Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.
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Latest Action: 04/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security. Bill TextTo amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for enhanced retirement security in the form of an Individual Social Security Investment Program. 4/23/2007--Introduced. Individual Social Security Investment Program Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to add a new part B (Individual Social Security Investment Program) to change Social Security into a system of individual accounts where workers born on or after January 1, 1986, as well as electing participants born between January 1, 1953, and January 1, 1986, have ownership of and control over the investment of their retirement funds in various investment vehicles: (1) Tier I Investment Fund; (2) Tier II Investment Fund; and (3) Tier III Investment Accounts. Allows participating workers choosing the individual account option to have 100% of their redirected Social Security contribution for the calendar [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 4/25/2007--Introduced. Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act of 2007 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. Authorizes appropriations. Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVIII (Medicare) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.
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Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to address the issues of college affordability and transparency. 1/16/2007--Introduced. College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner of Education Statistics, in redesigning the College Opportunity On-Line (COOL) website, to identify and include the data of greatest importance to prospective and enrolled students, and their families. Requires the Secretary of Education to publish, on such website, additional college affordability information comparing the change in each school's student costs with the change in the consumer price index (CPI) over the most recent three-year period. Requires a school whose prices increase at more than twice the percentage change in the CPI over such time period to: (1) report an explanation to the Secretary; and (2) establish a quality-efficiency task force to review the school's operations, if the school's price [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/11/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of regional consumer price indices to compute cost-of-living increases under the programs for Social Security and Medicare and other medical benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 7/10/2007--Introduced. COLA Fairness Act of 2007 - Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to establish: (1) a mapping of the United States comprising 14 specified regions; and (2) particular monthly consumer price indices for such regions for computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) benefits.
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Latest Action: 09/11/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of regional consumer price indices to compute cost-of-living increases under the programs for Social Security and Medicare and other medical benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 7/10/2007--Introduced. COLA Fairness Act of 2007 - Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to establish: (1) a mapping of the United States comprising 14 specified regions; and (2) particular monthly consumer price indices for such regions for computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) benefits.
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Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 4/25/2007--Introduced. Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act of 2007 - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. Authorizes appropriations. Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVIII (Medicare) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.
Also tagged in: Accounting, Administrative fees, Advice and consent of the Senate, Annuities, Appropriations, Auditing, Bonds, Budgets, Civil service retirement, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumers, Cost of living adjustments, Earnings, Economic policy, Estates (Law), Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Families, Federal officials, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Income tax, Investments, Labor, Law, Licenses, Married people, Mutual funds, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Pensions, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Saving and investment, Securities, Social security, Social security finance, Social security taxes, Supplemental security income program, Survivors' benefits, Tax exclusion, Tax exemption, Taxation, Trusts and trustees, Valuation, Wages, Welfare, Welfare recipients
Latest Action: 04/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security. Bill TextTo amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for enhanced retirement security in the form of an Individual Social Security Investment Program. 4/23/2007--Introduced. Individual Social Security Investment Program Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to add a new part B (Individual Social Security Investment Program) to change Social Security into a system of individual accounts where workers born on or after January 1, 1986, as well as electing participants born between January 1, 1953, and January 1, 1986, have ownership of and control over the investment of their retirement funds in various investment vehicles: (1) Tier I Investment Fund; (2) Tier II Investment Fund; and (3) Tier III Investment Accounts. Allows participating workers choosing the individual account option to have 100% of their redirected Social Security contribution for the calendar [...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. 4/19/2007--Introduced. Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative remedies, Admission of nonimmigrants, Advice and consent of the Senate, Aged, AIDS (Disease), Alcoholism, Aliens, Ambulances, Ambulatory care, Anesthetics, Armed forces, Birth control, Block grants, Budgets, Business, Capital budgets, Capitation (Medical care), Case management, Case mix (Medical care), Chemotherapy, Child health, Children, Chronically ill, Cigarettes, Civil rights, Communicable diseases, Communication in medicine, Communications, Community health services, Community organization, Competitive bidding, Comprehensive health care, Computer software, Computers, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer complaints, Consumer organizations, Consumers, Cost control, Cost effectiveness, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Data banks, Defense policy, Dental care, Dentistry, Department of Health and Human Services, Disability insurance, Disabled, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Dislocated workers, Drug abuse, Drug abuse prevention, Drug abuse treatment, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drug therapy, Drug utilization, Drugs, Economic policy, Education, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Families, Family medicine, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to research, Federal employees, Federal preemption, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Food, Food safety, Foodborne diseases, Free ports and zones, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Grievance procedures, Gynecology, Hazardous substances, Health care fraud, Health education, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health insurance continuation, Health insurance portability, Health planning, Health policy, Health services administration, Higher education, Home care services, Hospital care, Hospital personnel, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Identification devices, Immigration, Income tax, Inspectors general, Insurance premiums, Interstate relations, Job training, Labor, Labor unions, Law, Licenses, Long-term care insurance, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical ethics, Medical fees, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical laboratories, Medical malpractice, Medical research, Medical residents, Medical screening, Medical statistics, Medical supplies, Medical technology, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, Midwives, Military dependents, Military medicine, Nonprofit organizations, Nurse practitioners, Nurses, Nursing education, Nursing homes, Nutrition, Obstetrics, Occupational health and safety, Ombudsman, Patients' rights, Pediatrics, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Physicians' assistants, Politics and government, Potable water, Prescription pricing, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Preventive medicine, Product safety, Prosecution, Public contracts, Public health, Public health personnel, Quality of care, Railroad employees, Regional medical programs, Research centers, Rural affairs, Rural health, School health programs, Science policy, Sexually transmitted diseases, Smokeless tobacco, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State budgets, State politics and government, Tax credits, Tax rates, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Tobacco tax, Trade, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Urban affairs, Vending machines, Violence, Vital statistics, Vocational rehabilitation, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Welfare, Welfare fraud, Women
Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4034-4035) Bill TextTo provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. 2/27/2007--Introduced. American Health Security Act of 2007 - Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Requires each state health security program to prohibit the sale of health insurance in that state that duplicates benefits provided under the program. Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Budgets, College costs, College teachers, Colleges, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumers, Cost control, Cost effectiveness, Department of Education, Distance education, Dropouts, Economic impact statements, Economic policy, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Educational innovations, Educational statistics, Educational surveys, Electronic government information, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federally-guaranteed loans, Government information, Government lending, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Higher education, Internet, Law, Loan defaults, Performance measurement, Scholarships, Student aid, Student enrollment, Student loan funds, Teaching materials, Technology, Telecommunication, Textbooks, Web sites, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness. Bill TextTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to address the issues of college affordability and transparency. 1/16/2007--Introduced. College Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner of Education Statistics, in redesigning the College Opportunity On-Line (COOL) website, to identify and include the data of greatest importance to prospective and enrolled students, and their families. Requires the Secretary of Education to publish, on such website, additional college affordability information comparing the change in each school's student costs with the change in the consumer price index (CPI) over the most recent three-year period. Requires a school whose prices increase at more than twice the percentage change in the CPI over such time period to: (1) report an explanation to the Secretary; and (2) establish a quality-efficiency task force to review the school's operations, if the school's price [...] show full description
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