Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer Act
Latest action · Sep 18, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedSep 18, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expands the national program of State cancer registries funded under the Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a Cancer Surveillance System to monitor such registries, and reauthorizes the national program through 2008.
Modifies provision dealing with matching funds to require States pay at least one dollar for every five (currently, three) Federal dollars spent on a cancer registry.
Requires the Secretary to develop partnerships to speed the pace of improvements in the quality of cancer care.
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program to improve the quality of cancer care.
Requires the Secretary to award grants to entities to develop, implement, and evaluate: (1) cancer case management programs; (2) model programs for the delivery of palliative care for cancer sufferers; and (3) end-of-life care programs.
Directs the Secretary to conduct and support research regarding cancer survivorship.
Requires the Secretary to make grants to support cancer curriculum development for health care provider training.
Requires National Cancer Institute cancer control programs to include a plan to assist health professionals in professions facing the most severe shortages. Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to cooperate with, and make grants to, public or nonprofit entities to conduct multidisciplinary translational cancer research.
Cosponsors 15
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 18, 2002 to Sep 25, 2002; 14 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| R-MO | Christopher S. Bond | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-SC | Ernest F. Hollings | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-NC | John Edwards | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| R-TX | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| R-TN | William H. Frist | Original | Sep 18, 2002 |
| R-VT | James M. Jeffords | Sep 25, 2002 |
Withdrew 1 Max Baucus D-MT Oct 1, 2002
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 Sep 18, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Sep 18, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8761-8762)
- Sep 18, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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 S8761Analyses S8762Lists S8762Organizations supporting S. 2965, Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer ActSummaries S8761 | Edward M. Kennedy D-MA, William H. Frist R-TN | Sep 18, 2002 |
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. 107-1065 | CRIME AND SECURITY ISSUES INVOLVING U.S. SEAPORTS68 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Jul 24, 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 improve the quality of care for cancer, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Quality of Care for Individuals With Cancer Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Cancer
- Cancer research
- Case management
- Child health
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinical trials
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic data interchange
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to medical research
- Federal aid to nursing education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health maintenance organizations
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospices (Terminal care)
- Hospitals
- Indian medical care
- Information networks
- Language and languages
- Managed care
- Medical associations
- Medical innovations
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Minorities
- Minorities in medicine
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nurses
- Ombudsman
- Pain
- Patient satisfaction
- Patients' rights
- Peer review organizations (Medicine)
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Preventive medicine
- Public health research
- Quality of care
- Quality of life
- Research and development
- Research centers
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Social workers
- Student loan funds
- Terminal care
- Terminally ill
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 18, 2002Introduced in Senate
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