HR 328 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Access to Hospitals Act of 2003

Introduced Jan 8, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Ed Whitfield R-KY

Latest action · Feb 3, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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.

IntroducedJan 8, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Access to Hospitals Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal specified reductions after FY 2000 and thereby extend certain modifications to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments provided under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000.

Increases the Medicaid DSH allotment for the District of Columbia.

Cosponsors 133

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 8, 2003 to Jan 20, 2004; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Jan 8, 2003
R-CA	David Dreier	Original	Jan 8, 2003
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Jan 8, 2003
R-CA	George Radanovich	Original	Jan 8, 2003
R-IL	John Shimkus	Original	Jan 8, 2003
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Jan 8, 2003
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi	Original	Jan 8, 2003
D-OK	Brad Carson		Feb 5, 2003
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Feb 5, 2003
R-GA	Charles W. Norwood		Feb 5, 2003
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Feb 5, 2003
D-LA	Christopher John		Feb 5, 2003
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Feb 5, 2003
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Feb 5, 2003
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Feb 5, 2003
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Feb 5, 2003
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Feb 5, 2003
D-TX	Gene Green		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Feb 5, 2003
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon		Feb 5, 2003
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Joe Baca		Feb 5, 2003
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Feb 5, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost		Feb 5, 2003
R-CA	Mary Bono		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Feb 5, 2003
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Feb 5, 2003
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Feb 5, 2003
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Feb 5, 2003
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Feb 5, 2003
R-CA	Randy (Duke) Cunningham		Feb 5, 2003
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Feb 5, 2003
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Feb 5, 2003
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Feb 5, 2003
R-OH	Robert W. Ney		Feb 5, 2003
R-KY	Ron Lewis		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Sam Farr		Feb 5, 2003
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Feb 5, 2003
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Feb 5, 2003
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Feb 5, 2003
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Feb 5, 2003
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Mar 6, 2003
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Mar 6, 2003
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Mar 20, 2003
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Mar 20, 2003
D-CA	George Miller		Mar 20, 2003
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 20, 2003
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Mar 20, 2003
D-CO	Mark Udall		Mar 20, 2003
R-MI	Mike Rogers		Mar 20, 2003
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Mar 20, 2003
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Mar 20, 2003
R-VA	Edward L. Schrock		Mar 27, 2003
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Mar 27, 2003
R-GA	Nathan Deal		Mar 27, 2003
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Mar 27, 2003
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Apr 3, 2003
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Apr 3, 2003
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Apr 3, 2003
D-MA	Barney Frank		Apr 11, 2003
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Apr 11, 2003
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		Apr 11, 2003
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Apr 11, 2003
D-KY	Ken Lucas		Apr 11, 2003
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Apr 11, 2003
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Apr 11, 2003
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley		Apr 29, 2003
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Apr 29, 2003
D-TX	Chris Bell		Apr 29, 2003
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Apr 29, 2003
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Apr 29, 2003
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Apr 29, 2003
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Apr 29, 2003
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Apr 29, 2003
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Apr 29, 2003
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Apr 29, 2003
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		May 7, 2003
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 7, 2003
R-KY	Ernie Fletcher		May 7, 2003
R-WA	George R. Nethercutt Jr.		May 7, 2003
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		May 7, 2003
R-TX	Henry Bonilla		May 7, 2003
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		May 7, 2003
D-TX	Jim Turner		May 7, 2003
D-TX	Max Sandlin		May 7, 2003
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 7, 2003
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 7, 2003
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 7, 2003
R-VA	Virgil H. Goode Jr.		May 7, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 14, 2003
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		May 14, 2003
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 14, 2003
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		May 14, 2003
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		May 14, 2003
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		May 14, 2003
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel		May 14, 2003
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 14, 2003
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 14, 2003
D-KS	Dennis Moore		May 15, 2003
R-CA	Devin Nunes		May 15, 2003
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		May 15, 2003
D-NY	Major R. Owens		May 15, 2003
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		May 15, 2003
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		May 15, 2003
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 22, 2003
D-CA	Brad Sherman		May 22, 2003
D-MI	John D. Dingell		May 22, 2003
R-GA	Mac Collins		May 22, 2003
R-NC	Robin Hayes		May 22, 2003
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		May 22, 2003
D-WA	Brian Baird		Jun 5, 2003
D-IN	Julia Carson		Jun 5, 2003
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jun 5, 2003
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jun 5, 2003
D-AR	Mike Ross		Jun 5, 2003
D-TX	Nick Lampson		Jun 5, 2003
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Jun 5, 2003
R-KY	Anne M. Northup		Jun 23, 2003
D-CA	Bob Filner		Jun 23, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jun 23, 2003
D-VA	James P. Moran		Jun 23, 2003
R-TX	Kay Granger		Jun 23, 2003
D-TX	Charles W. Stenholm		Jul 21, 2003
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Jul 21, 2003
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jul 21, 2003
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Sep 23, 2003
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Dec 8, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jan 20, 2004

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jan 8, 2003
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Feb 3, 2003

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 3, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 8, 2003Introduced in House
Jan 8, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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
Serial No. 108-24	MEDICAID TODAY: THE STATES' PERSPECTIVE131 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Mar 12, 2003

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 652	Access to Hospitals Act of 2003	Identical bill	Mar 18, 2003

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend modifications to DSH allotments provided under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000.
Short Titles as Introduced: Access to Hospitals Act of 2003

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 8, 2003Introduced in House

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