Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act
Latest action · May 3, 2006 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E707)
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.
- IntroducedJun 20, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act - Establishes the United States Health Service as an independent executive branch entity to provide health care and supplemental health services to all individuals within the United States. Requires the President to appoint members to a National Health Board to exercise the authority of the Service.
Establishes an Office of the Inspector General for Health Services.
Requires the Service to ensure that every individual is given certain basic health rights, including the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services from any facility within the Service capable of providing such services without charge and without discrimination.
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide employees with leave to receive necessary health care services.
Requires the Board to: (1) establish any necessary health care facilities; (2) establish guidelines for the classification, certification, and employment of health workers by job category; (3) provide for the education of health workers through health team schools and loan repayment; (4) establish a health advocacy program to ensure the realization of patients' rights; (5) oversee occupational safety and health programs; and (6) conduct research concerning health and health care delivery.
Transfers to the Board the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that conduct research on health and health care. Requires the Board to establish additional research institutes.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a health services tax on the income of individuals and corporations to fund the Health Service Trust Fund (established under this Act).
Transfers to the Service certain authority of the Secretary of HHS.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 27, 2005 to Feb 1, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Jun 27, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Jun 28, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Jun 30, 2005 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Jul 11, 2005 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Dec 14, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Feb 1, 2006 |
Committees 3
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 Jun 20, 2005 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jul 1, 2005 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jun 20, 2005 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Jul 25, 2005 | |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred Jul 25, 2005 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 20, 2005 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 3, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E707)
- Jul 25, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Jul 25, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Jul 1, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 20, 2005Introduced in House
- Jun 20, 2005Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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.
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.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E707 | Barbara Lee D-CA | May 3, 2006 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a United States Health Service to provide high quality comprehensive health care for all Americans and to overcome the deficiencies in the present system of health care delivery.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Ambulances
- Ambulatory care
- Auditing
- Breast cancer
- Capital budgets
- Capitation (Medical care)
- Case management
- Charitable contributions
- Child health
- Childbirth
- Chronically ill
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil service retirement
- Clinical trials
- Collection of accounts
- Collective bargaining
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Comprehensive health care
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer complaints
- Continuing education
- Corporation taxes
- Curricula
- Day care
- Dental care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Disasters
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Eminent domain
- Employee health benefits
- Employee rights
- Employee selection
- Employee training
- Employment tests
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Epidemics
- Epidemiology
- Executive reorganization
- Eye care
- Eyeglasses
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Federal aid to education
- Federal employees
- Federal preemption
- Financial statements
- Generic drugs
- Geriatrics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Grievance procedures
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health facilities
- Health planning
- Hearing aids
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Housing and Community Development
- Human experimentation in medicine
- Income tax
- Industrial relations
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Inspectors general
- Investment of public funds
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Labor disputes
- Law
- Legal services
- Licenses
- Mastectomy
- Maternal health services
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical malpractice
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Medicare
- Mental care facilities
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Minorities
- Minority health
- National health insurance
- Nursing homes
- Occupational health and safety
- Pain
- Parent and child
- Patient satisfaction
- Patients' rights
- Personnel management
- Pregnant women
- Prescription pricing
- Presidential appointments
- Preventive medicine
- Promotions
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public meetings
- Quality of care
- Regional medical programs
- Reproduction
- Right of privacy
- Rural health
- Salaries
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sick leave
- Social security taxes
- Social Welfare
- Sterilization (Birth control)
- Student employment
- Student loan funds
- Tax deductions
- Tax exclusion
- Tax rates
- Tax-exempt securities
- Taxation
- Terminal care
- Terminally ill
- Transfer of employees
- Translating and interpreting
- Transportation and Public Works
- Whistle blowing
- Women
- Women's health
- Workers' compensation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 20, 2005Introduced in House
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