Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act
Latest action · May 21, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 13, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act - Requires that $250 million of foreign aid funds appropriated under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 be made available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make allotments to States for eligible providers for unreimbursable costs incurred by providing emergency health care services to: (1) undocumented aliens; (2) aliens who have been paroled into the United States at a U.S. port of entry for the purpose of receiving eligible services; and (3) Mexican citizens permitted to enter the United States for not more than 72 hours under the authority of biometric machine readable border crossing identification card.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 21, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- May 13, 2004Introduced in House
- May 13, 2004Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: International Affairs.
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- May 13, 2004Introduced in House
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