HEART for Women Act
Latest action · Feb 17, 2006 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.
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Heart Disease Education, Analysis, and Research, and Treatment for Women Act or the HEART for Women Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to require an application for approval or for investigation of a drug, device, or biological product to include information stratified by gender, race, and ethnicity, including any differences in safety and effectiveness. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) withhold approval of such an application or place a clinical hold on an investigation if such information is not included; and (2) report to the scientific community and make information available to the public on such stratified data upon approval of an application.
Requires the Comptroller General to study the drug approval process to ensure compliance with this Act.
Requires the Secretary to require that all nonidentifiable patient safety work product reported to a patient safety database be stratified by gender.
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the Secretary to make hospital quality data relating to the quality of care in inpatient settings available to the public stratified by gender.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to report to Congress concerning the quality of and access to care for women with heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases.
Requires utilization and quality control peer review organizations to offer quality improvement assistance aimed at eliminating gender disparities.
Amends title IX (employment security provisions) of SSA to require that data be stratified by gender when collected and used in surveys evaluating whether Medicare providers meet applicable conditions of participation or coverage.
Provides for an educational campaign relating to heart disease, stroke, and cardiovascular diseases in women.
Cosponsors 120
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2006 to Nov 13, 2006; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WY | Barbara Cubin | Original | Feb 14, 2006 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| R-NJ | Jim Saxton | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 7, 2006 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 7, 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 Feb 14, 2006 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 17, 2006 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 14, 2006 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 17, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 15, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H279)
- Feb 14, 2006Introduced in House
- Feb 14, 2006Referred 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 2
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 E181 | Juanita Millender-McDonald D-CA | Feb 17, 2006 |
| House | Debate and remarks H279 | Lois Capps D-CA | Feb 15, 2006 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 109-116 | MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF HIGH GAS PRICES ON THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE92 pages | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Nov 16, 2005 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2278 | HEART for Women Act | Identical bill | Feb 14, 2006 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Heart Disease Education, Analysis, and Research, and Treatment for Women Act
- HEART for Women Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Accreditation (Medical care)
- Administrative procedure
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Clinical trials
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Communication in science
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug approvals
- Drug industry
- Drugs
- Education
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Hospital care
- Indian medical care
- Indian women
- Law
- Medical education
- Medical malpractice
- Medical records
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Native Americans
- Peer review organizations (Medicine)
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Poverty
- Preventive medicine
- Quality of care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Stroke
- Women
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2006Introduced in House
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