HR 3932 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2007

Introduced Oct 23, 2007 Originated House Sponsor Marion Berry D-AR

Fact sheet

Latest action · Nov 9, 2007 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.

  1. IntroducedOct 23, 2007
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) establishment of one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plan options; (2) an appeals process for denials of benefits under a Medicare operated prescription drug plan; and (3) pharmacy payments under such a plan.

Cosponsors 31

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 23, 2007 to Jul 10, 2008, with 14 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAHenry A. WaxmanOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYJerrold NadlerOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-GAJim MarshallOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-MAJohn F. TierneyOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYJohn J. HallOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYJose E. SerranoOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-CALinda T. SánchezOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYMaurice D. HincheyOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYMichael R. McNultyOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-PAPaul E. KanjorskiOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-FLRobert WexlerOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-CASam FarrOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-NYTimothy H. BishopOriginalOct 23, 2007
D-ILPhil HareOct 25, 2007
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Nov 9, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Nov 8, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Oct 23, 2007Introduced in House
  4. Oct 23, 2007Referred 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.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 2219Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2007Identical billOct 23, 2007

Subjects

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

Text 1

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  1. Oct 23, 2007Introduced in House

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