Elaine Sullivan Act
Latest action · Jun 17, 2005 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.
- IntroducedMay 24, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Elaine Sullivan Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require emergency departments to contact family members, a specified healthcare agent, or a surrogate decisionmaker of an incapacitated patient within 24 hours of arrival at the emergency department.
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to qualified not-for-profit organizations for the purpose of assisting them to establish and operate voluntary next of kin registries.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 29, 2005 to Jun 14, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Jul 20, 2005 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Jun 14, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 17, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 1, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 24, 2005Introduced in House
- May 24, 2005Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- May 24, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3880-3881)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Communication in medicine
- Data banks
- Directories
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic data interchange
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Families
- Family services
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health information systems
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Law
- Medicare
- Missing persons
- Nonprofit organizations
- Patients' rights
- Power of attorney
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 24, 2005Introduced in House
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