Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Cash welfare block grants, Children, Commuting, Energy, Energy assistance for the poor, Energy prices, Families, Gasoline, Grants-in-aid, Health policy, Job training, Medical care, State and local government, Transportation, Vocational education, Welfare, Welfare eligibility
Latest Action: 05/01/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide emergency assistance for families receiving assistance under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act and low-income working families. 5/1/2008--Introduced. Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to enable states to establish emergency assistance programs to make certain payments to eligible low-income households for the purchase of gasoline. Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize a state to use funds from any TANF grant to carry out such a program.
Also tagged in: Affordable housing, Budgets, Civil rights, Collection of accounts, Fair housing, Federal aid to housing, Federal-state relations, Finance, Foreclosure, Government lending, Home ownership, Housing, Housing finance, Housing subsidies, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Low-income housing, Mortgages, Rental housing, Residential rehabilitation, State and local government, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/12/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextTo authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to States to acquire foreclosed housing and to make grants to States for related costs. 5/8/2008--Passed House amended. (There are 2 other summaries) Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008 - (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants and loans to qualified states, metropolitan cities, and urban counties, in accordance with HUD-approved plans, to carry out eligible housing stimulus activities. Requires such program to be administered through HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (or any successor office responsible for administering the community development block grant program under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974). (Sec. 4) Specifies the contents of a grant or loan applicant's plan, which must be submitted for the Secretary's approval. Requires a plan, among other things, to give priority [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Budgets, Case management, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal-state relations, Health policy, Hospital care, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Medicaid, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Medicine, Quality of care, Welfare
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a DSH redistribution pool from unexpended Medicaid DSH allotments in order to increase Medicaid DSH allotments for low DSH States and to provide grants for health access networks serving the uninsured. 4/8/2008--Introduced. Strengthening the Safety Net Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a disproportionate share hospital (DSH) redistribution pool from unexpended Medicaid DSH allotments to fund an increase in allotments for low DSH states. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award demonstration grants to health access networks to improve access, quality, and continuity of care for uninsured individuals through better coordination of care by such networks.
Also tagged in: Aged, Coinsurance, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Drugs, Finance, Health maintenance organizations, Health policy, Long-term care, Managed care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medicare, Medicine, Nursing homes, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Prescription pricing, Welfare
Latest Action: 12/13/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient protections under the Medicare prescription drug program for residents of long term care facilities. 12/13/2007--Introduced. Medicare Part D Long-Term Care Patient Protection Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide a long-term care pharmacy benefit under Medicare part D. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process for the immediate enrollment of part D eligible individuals in a prescription drug plan upon the individual's establishment as a resident of a long-term care facility. Eliminates part D cost-sharing for certain non-institutionalized full-benefit dual eligible individuals.
Also tagged in: Accounting, Administrative fees, Advice and consent of the Senate, Annuities, Appropriations, Auditing, Bonds, Budgets, Civil service retirement, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer price indexes, 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
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
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Aged, Aid to dependent children, Birth control, Budgets, Business, Case mix (Medical care), Cash welfare block grants, Child health, Children, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Consumer education, Consumers, Dental care, Department of Health and Human Services, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drug abuse, Drug abuse treatment, Drugs, Economic policy, Electronic data interchange, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Eye care, Eyeglasses, Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal employees, Federal preemption, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health insurance continuation, Health policy, Hearing aids, Hospital care, Hospital rates, Identification devices, Indexing (Economic policy), Infants, Insurance premiums, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Labor, Law, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical fees, Medical records, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, National health insurance, Obstetrics, Poor children, Poverty, Pregnant women, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Sales promotion, Small business, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Supplemental security income program, Technology, Telecommunication, Vaccination, Vaccines, Welfare, Women
Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an AmeriCare that assures the provision of health insurance coverage to all residents, and for other purposes. 3/29/2007--Introduced. AmeriCare Health Care Act of 2007 - Adds a new title XXII to the Social Security Act (SSA) entitled "AmeriCare Health Benefits." Makes all U.S. residents eligible for AmeriCare benefits, including prescription drugs and biologicals. Requires the development of an AmeriCare enrollment mechanism that includes automatic enrollment at birth and the issuance of AmeriCare cards for identification and claims processing purposes.Provides that an individual may elect not to be enrolled for benefits under AmeriCare if the individual has health benefits coverage under a group health plan at least equivalent to AmeriCare coverage.Provides the same benefits under AmeriCare as are provided under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aged, Coinsurance, Drugs, Finance, Health insurance, Health maintenance organizations, Health policy, Law, Managed care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medicare, Medicine, Prescription pricing, Welfare
Latest Action: 02/20/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the monthly amount of prescription drug cost-sharing for full-benefit dual eligible individuals and other lowest-income individuals under the Medicare prescription drug program. 2/8/2007--Introduced. Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to limit to $10, adjusted for inflation, the monthly amount of prescription drug cost-sharing for full-benefit dual eligible individuals (eligible for both part D and Medicaid under SSA title XIX) and other lowest-income individuals.
Also tagged in: Aged, Case mix (Medical care), Health policy, Hospital rates, Medicaid, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Puerto Rico, Welfare
Latest Action: 01/30/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for equity in the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments for hospitals in Puerto Rico. 1/22/2007--Introduced. Puerto Rico Hospitals Medicare DSH Equity Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe a formula for the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for prospective payment system hospitals in Puerto Rico.
Also tagged in: Broadband, Business, Congressional reporting requirements, Governmental investigations, Internet, Technological innovations, Technology, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry, Telecommunication rates, Telephone, Welfare, Wireless communication
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Bill TextTo amend the Communications Act of 1934 to continue in effect and expand the Lifeline Assistance Program and the Link Up Program, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Serving Everyone with Reliable, Vital Internet, Communications, and Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand the Lifeline Assistance Program and the Link Up Program. Requires a report to Congress on the benefit level for the programs that will encourage low-income consumers to seek broadband service, projections on potential broadband consumers if the service was economically feasible, industry requirements to provide broadband service in underserved areas, and policy proposals regarding gaps in broadband availability.
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