9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2006
Latest action · Sep 21, 2006 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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 21, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 21, 2006 to Sep 28, 2006, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Sep 21, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Sep 28, 2006 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 21, 2006Introduced in Senate
- Sep 21, 2006Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Health
- Health insurance
- Health surveys
- Medical screening
- Medically uninsured
- Mental health services
- Physical examinations
- September 11, 2001
- Terrorism
- Victims of terrorism
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 21, 2006Introduced in Senate
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