HR 3861 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005

Introduced Sep 22, 2005 Originated House Sponsor Fortney Pete Stark D-CA

Latest action · Oct 7, 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.

IntroducedSep 22, 2005
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide for an extended period of open enrollment during all of 2006 without late enrollment penalty; (2) give Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity to make a one-time change in prescription drug plan enrollment at any point in 2006; and (3) provide protection from loss of employment-based retiree health coverage upon enrollment for Medicare prescription drug benefit, including a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug benefit, during 2006.

Cosponsors 174

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 22, 2005 to Jun 22, 2006; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-MI	John D. Dingell	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	Sep 22, 2005
D-MA	Barney Frank		Sep 27, 2005
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Sep 27, 2005
D-GA	John Lewis		Sep 27, 2005
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Sep 27, 2005
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Sep 27, 2005
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel		Sep 27, 2005
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Sep 27, 2005
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Sep 27, 2005
D-CA	Sam Farr		Sep 27, 2005
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Sep 27, 2005
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Oct 6, 2005
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Oct 6, 2005
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Oct 6, 2005
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Lois Capps		Oct 6, 2005
D-AR	Marion Berry		Oct 6, 2005
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Oct 6, 2005
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Oct 6, 2005
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Oct 6, 2005
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Oct 6, 2005
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Oct 7, 2005
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Oct 7, 2005
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Oct 7, 2005
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Oct 7, 2005
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Oct 7, 2005
D-NC	Brad Miller		Oct 18, 2005
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Oct 18, 2005
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Oct 27, 2005
D-CT	John B. Larson		Nov 1, 2005
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Nov 15, 2005
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Nov 15, 2005
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Nov 15, 2005
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Nov 15, 2005
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Nov 15, 2005
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Nov 15, 2005
D-FL	Jim Davis		Nov 15, 2005
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Nov 15, 2005
D-FL	Kendrick B. Meek		Nov 15, 2005
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Nov 15, 2005
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Nov 15, 2005
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Nov 15, 2005
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Nov 15, 2005
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Nov 15, 2005
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Nov 15, 2005
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Nov 15, 2005
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Nov 15, 2005
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Nov 15, 2005
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Nov 15, 2005
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Nov 15, 2005
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Nov 15, 2005
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Nov 15, 2005
D-NM	Tom Udall		Nov 15, 2005
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Nov 16, 2005
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Nov 16, 2005
D-LA	Charlie Melancon		Nov 16, 2005
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Nov 16, 2005
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Nov 16, 2005
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		Nov 16, 2005
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Nov 16, 2005
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Nov 16, 2005
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Nov 16, 2005
D-HI	Ed Case		Nov 16, 2005
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Nov 16, 2005
D-VA	James P. Moran		Nov 16, 2005
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Nov 16, 2005
D-IN	Julia Carson		Nov 16, 2005
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Nov 16, 2005
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Nov 16, 2005
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Nov 16, 2005
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin		Nov 16, 2005
D-NY	Steve Israel		Nov 16, 2005
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Nov 16, 2005
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Nov 16, 2005
D-PA	Tim Holden		Nov 16, 2005
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Nov 16, 2005
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Nov 17, 2005
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Nov 17, 2005
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Nov 17, 2005
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Nov 17, 2005
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Nov 17, 2005
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Nov 17, 2005
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Nov 18, 2005
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Nov 18, 2005
D-WI	David R. Obey		Nov 18, 2005
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Nov 18, 2005
D-IL	Lane Evans		Nov 18, 2005
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Nov 18, 2005
D-AR	Mike Ross		Nov 18, 2005
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Nov 18, 2005
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Nov 18, 2005
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Nov 18, 2005
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Dec 6, 2005
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Dec 8, 2005
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Dec 8, 2005
D-TX	Gene Green		Dec 8, 2005
D-CA	Jane Harman		Dec 8, 2005
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Dec 8, 2005
D-WI	Ron Kind		Dec 8, 2005
D-CA	Bob Filner		Dec 13, 2005
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Dec 13, 2005
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Dec 13, 2005
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Dec 13, 2005
D-MA	John W. Olver		Dec 13, 2005
D-CO	Mark Udall		Dec 13, 2005
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Dec 13, 2005
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Dec 13, 2005
D-TX	Al Green		Dec 14, 2005
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Dec 14, 2005
D-WA	Brian Baird		Dec 14, 2005
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Dec 14, 2005
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Dec 17, 2005
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Dec 17, 2005
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Dec 17, 2005
D-OK	Dan Boren		Dec 17, 2005
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Dec 17, 2005
D-GA	John Barrow		Dec 17, 2005
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Dec 17, 2005
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		Dec 17, 2005
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Dec 17, 2005
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Dec 17, 2005
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jan 31, 2006
D-KY	Ben Chandler		Jan 31, 2006
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jan 31, 2006
D-GA	David Scott		Jan 31, 2006
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jan 31, 2006
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Jan 31, 2006
D-GA	Jim Marshall		Jan 31, 2006
D-CA	Joe Baca		Jan 31, 2006
D-CO	John T. Salazar		Jan 31, 2006
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Jan 31, 2006
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jan 31, 2006
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jan 31, 2006
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Jan 31, 2006
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Jan 31, 2006
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Feb 1, 2006
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Feb 1, 2006
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Feb 1, 2006
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Feb 14, 2006
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Feb 14, 2006
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Feb 14, 2006
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Feb 14, 2006
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Feb 14, 2006
D-NC	David E. Price		Mar 1, 2006
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Mar 1, 2006
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Mar 1, 2006
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Mar 1, 2006
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Mar 7, 2006
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Mar 7, 2006
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Mar 8, 2006
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Mar 16, 2006
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Mar 30, 2006
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Mar 30, 2006
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Apr 6, 2006
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Apr 25, 2006
D-TN	Lincoln Davis		May 4, 2006
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		May 4, 2006
D-CA	Maxine Waters		May 9, 2006
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		May 9, 2006
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 10, 2006
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		May 10, 2006
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		May 25, 2006
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jun 6, 2006
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.		Jun 22, 2006

Committees 2

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 Sep 22, 2005
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Oct 7, 2005
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Sep 22, 2005

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Oct 7, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sep 22, 2005Introduced in House
Sep 22, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1932)
Sep 22, 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.

In the Congressional Record 9

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
House	Debate and remarks H1987	Daniel Lipinski D-IL	May 3, 2006
House	Discharge petition H1918	—	Apr 27, 2006
House	Discharge petition H1131	—	Mar 16, 2006
House	Discharge petition H869	—	Mar 9, 2006
House	Discharge petition H567	—	Mar 2, 2006

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Related bills 2

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HRES 585	Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3861) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide extended and additional protection to Medicare beneficiaries who enroll for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during 2006.	Procedurally related	Dec 16, 2005
S 1841	Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005	Identical bill	Oct 6, 2005

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide extended and additional protection to Medicare beneficiaries who enroll for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during 2006.
Short Titles as Introduced: Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005

Subjects

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

Text 1

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Sep 22, 2005Introduced in House

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