Health Care Consumers Assistance Fund Act
Latest action · Mar 29, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3163-3164)
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.
- IntroducedMar 29, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cosponsors 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2001 to Jun 19, 2001; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Mar 29, 2001 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Mar 29, 2001 |
| R-VT | James M. Jeffords | Original | Mar 29, 2001 |
| D-MN | Paul D. Wellstone | Original | Mar 29, 2001 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Original | Mar 29, 2001 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Jun 19, 2001 |
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 Mar 29, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Mar 29, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3162-3163)
- Mar 29, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3163-3164)
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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide for the establishment of an assistance program for health insurance consumers.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Health Care Consumers Assistance Fund Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Administrative remedies
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer complaints
- Consumer education
- Economics and Public Finance
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government service contracts
- Grants-in-aid
- Grievance procedures
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health insurance industry
- Health planning
- Housing and Community Development
- Law
- Long-term care
- Medicaid
- Medicaid fraud
- Medical records
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare fraud
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Nonprofit organizations
- Ombudsman
- Patients' rights
- Pluralism (Social sciences)
- Poor children
- Right of privacy
- Rural health
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Telephone
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2001Introduced in Senate
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