Improving Health Care in Rural America Act
Latest action · Jul 31, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8468-8469)
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.
- IntroducedJul 31, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a telehomecare demonstration project of up to five three-year grants to eligible certified home care providers, individually or as part of a network of home health agencies, for the provision of telehomecare to improve patient care, prevent health care complications, improve patient outcomes, and achieve efficiencies in the delivery of care to patients who reside in rural areas.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Jul 31, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 31, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jul 31, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8467-8468)
- Jul 31, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8468-8469)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S8467Text printed S8468 | Tom Harkin D-IA (text) | Jul 31, 2001 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-144 | NATIONAL ENERGY ISSUES348 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Jul 19, 2001–Jul 26, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for rural health services outreach, rural health network planning and implementation, and small health care provider quality improvement grant programs, and telehomecare demonstration projects.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Improving Health Care in Rural America Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Curricula
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Families
- Family medicine
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to nursing education
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Health
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Housing and Community Development
- Medical economics
- Patient satisfaction
- Preventive medicine
- Quality of care
- Rural health
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Telemedicine
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 31, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
