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Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017 Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act Short Titles as Reported to House Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act [HB-2824]
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Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017 Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act Short Titles as Reported to House Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act TITLE I--INCREASING OPPORTUNITY AND SUCCESS FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS THROUGH EVIDENCE-BASED HOME VISITING ACT Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act (Sec. 102) This bill amends title V (Maternal and Child Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Meehan
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 09/28/2017
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act [HB-2832]
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act This bill requires the President to include in the annual budget proposal the total level of means-tested welfare spending by the federal, state, and local governments for the most recent fiscal year for which such data is available, and estimated levels for the current and 10 ensuing fiscal years. For each of FY2018-FY2028 each state that receives means-tested welfare spending by the federal government shall report annually to the Congressional Budget Office on the total amount of such spending by the state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Nutrition. on 06/26/2017
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 [HB-2803]
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 This bill sets forth a variety of measures to address the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and to assist trafficking victims. Included among these are provisions concerning: restitution for victims; funding of investigations of offenses relating to sexual abuse of children; grants to states and localities and other entities for victim service assistance; training of health, victim service, and federal law enforcement personnel, including through the use of a victim screening protocol by the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 07/12/2017
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Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017 [HB-2797]
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Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to create and test a new Medicare model for advanced illness and care management that would enable certain Medicare beneficiaries with serious, chronic progressive, or advanced illnesses, to voluntarily engage in a planning process to obtain specialized care consistent with their health care goals. At least one participant in this model must be a hospice program. The model requires an interdisciplinary team comprised of physicians, nurses,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/15/2017
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 [S.1311]
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Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 This bill sets forth a variety of measures to address the prevention and punishment of human trafficking and to assist trafficking victims. Included among these are provisions concerning: restitution for victims; funding of investigations of offenses relating to sexual abuse of children; grants to states and localities and other entities for victim service assistance; training of health, victim service, and federal law enforcement personnel, including through the use of a victim screening protocol by the Department
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Signed By President. on 12/21/2018
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Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2017 [S.1291]
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Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise payment rules for graduate medical education (GME) costs with respect to a hospital that establishes a new medical residency training program. With respect to a hospital that has not entered into a GME affiliation agreement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall establish the hospital's full-time equivalent (FTE) resident amount only after determining that the hospital's medical residency
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rob Portman
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/06/2017
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Expressing support for the designation of June 2017 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month" and calling on Congress to address gun violence. [HR-373]
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Expressing support for the designation of June 2017 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month" and calling on Congress to address gun violence. Expresses support for the designation of June 2017 as National Gun Violence Awareness Month. Calls on Congress to enact the following legislation to address gun violence: H.B. 1475, the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act; H.B. 1478, the Gun Violence Research Act of 2017; H.B. 1612, the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2017; and legislation to ban assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 06/23/2017
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act [S.1290]
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act This bill requires the President to include in the annual budget proposal the total level of means-tested welfare spending by the federal, state, and local governments for the most recent fiscal year for which such data is available, and estimated levels for the current and 10 ensuing fiscal years. For each of FY2019-FY2029 each state that receives means-tested welfare spending by the federal government shall report annually to the Congressional Budget Office on the total amount of such spending by the state
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Lee
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/05/2017
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 [HB-2662]
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Doug LaMalfa
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 06/21/2017
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Public Health Violence Prevention Act [HB-2757]
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Public Health Violence Prevention Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/02/2017
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Child Protection and Family Support Act of 2017 [S.1268]
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Child Protection and Family Support Act of 2017 This bill amends Part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the removal and foster care placement of a child to meet the requirements for foster care maintenance payments if the child has been placed with a parent residing in a licensed residential family-based treatment facility for substance abuse. The bill revises requirements for grants to regional partnerships delivering services and producing activities designed to implement IV-E prevention
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S3218-3219) on 05/25/2017
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Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2017 [S.1255]
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Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2017 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act, for purposes of determining OASDI benefits, to credit individuals who serve as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of such service. Specifically, an individual shall be deemed to have been paid a wage (according to a specified formula) during each month in which the individual was engaged for at least 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 05/25/2017
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Medicaid Coverage for Addiction Recovery Expansion Act [HB-2687]
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Medicaid Coverage for Addiction Recovery Expansion Act This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow states to provide medical assistance to adults for residential addiction treatment facility services under the Medicaid program if such services are offered as part of a full continuum of evidence-based treatment services. "Residential addiction treatment facility services" are medically necessary inpatient services provided in an accredited, size-limited facility for the purpose of treating a substance use disorder within
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/26/2017
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RESET Act Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment Act of 2017 [S.1252]
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RESET Act Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Schatz
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 05/25/2017
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 [S.1250]
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Daines
Committee On Indian Affairs. Ordered To Be Reported With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute Favorably. on 04/11/2018
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Special Diabetes Program for Indians Reauthorization Act of 2017 [HB-2545]
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Special Diabetes Program for Indians Reauthorization Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/19/2017
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Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2017 [HB-2535]
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Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend lifespan respite care programs (services for family caregivers of children and adults with special needs) through FY2022. Each state agency awarded a grant or cooperative agreement for lifespan respite care must collect, maintain, and report to the Department of Health and Human Services data and records to enable monitoring and evaluation of the lifespan programs and activities.
Sponsored by: Rep. James R. Langevin
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/19/2017
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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world. [HR-342]
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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world. Reaffirms the critical role of frontline health workers in achieving core global health goals. Commends U.S. progress in helping to build local capacity and save lives in the world's most vulnerable communities by training and supporting such workers. Urges greater global attention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Introduced In House on 05/18/2017
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Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2017 [S.1188]
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Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend lifespan respite care programs (services for family caregivers of children and adults with special needs) through FY2022. Each state agency awarded a grant or cooperative agreement for lifespan respite care must collect, maintain, and report to the Department of Health and Human Services data and records to enable monitoring and evaluation of the lifespan programs and activities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/18/2017
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Expressing support for a month to be known as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, and for other purposes. [HCR-58]
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Expressing support for a month to be known as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Supports the designation of Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. (Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that causes persistent lung infections and limits the ability to breathe over time.) Congratulates the cystic fibrosis community for their dedication to patients. Recognizes that the care delivery system for cystic fibrosis can be a model for care coordination. Acknowledges the investments and scientific achievements that have improved the lives
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Sponsored by: Rep. James P. McGovern
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/26/2017