HR 5411 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Medicare Beneficiary Skilled Nursing Protection Act of 2002

Introduced Sep 19, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Thomas H. Allen D-ME

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 8, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedSep 19, 2002
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Beneficiary Skilled Nursing Protection Act of 2002 - Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to extend for three years the temporary increase in the nursing component of the Federal prospective payment rate.

Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 to extend for three years the increase in the skilled nursing facility adjusted Federal per diem rate under the Social Security Act.

Cosponsors 82

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 19, 2002 to Nov 22, 2002, with 25 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalSep 19, 2002
R-MSCharles W. "Chip" PickeringOriginalSep 19, 2002
R-NJChristopher H. SmithOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-MIDale E. KildeeOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-ALEarl F. HilliardOriginalSep 19, 2002
R-PAGeorge W. GekasOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-RIJames R. LangevinOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-WAJay InsleeOriginalSep 19, 2002
R-MOJo Ann EmersonOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-MEJohn Elias BaldacciOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-KYKen LucasOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-CALois CappsOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-ARMarion BerryOriginalSep 19, 2002
D-NYMichael R. McNultyOriginalSep 19, 2002
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 8, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
  2. Sep 19, 2002Introduced in House
  3. Sep 19, 2002Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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