S 2659 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004

Introduced Jul 15, 2004 Originated Senate Sponsor Susan M. Collins R-ME

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 15, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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 15, 2004
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for a two-year extension of the temporary Medicare payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area.

Cosponsors 13

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 15, 2004 to Sep 30, 2004, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln	Original	Jul 15, 2004
R-MO	Christopher S. Bond	Original	Jul 15, 2004
R-MT	Conrad R. Burns	Original	Jul 15, 2004
R-WY	Craig Thomas	Original	Jul 15, 2004
D-ND	Kent Conrad	Original	Jul 15, 2004
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold	Original	Jul 15, 2004
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu		Jul 20, 2004
I-VT	James M. Jeffords		Jul 21, 2004
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy		Jul 22, 2004
R-IN	Richard G. Lugar		Sep 7, 2004
R-PA	Rick Santorum		Sep 7, 2004
D-SD	Thomas A. Daschle		Sep 13, 2004
R-AK	Lisa Murkowski		Sep 30, 2004

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 15, 2004Introduced in Senate
Jul 15, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jul 15, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8230-8231)

Subjects

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

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