Access to Affordable Health Care Act
Latest action · Jan 4, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedJan 4, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Access to Affordable Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) tax credits to small businesses for qualified employee health insurance expenses; (2) tax credits for qualified health insurance; (3) deductions for long-term care premiums; and (4) tax credits for individuals with long-term care needs.
Requires the Secretary of Labor to award grants to states to assist in planning, developing, and operating qualified small employer purchasing groups for health insurance.
Directs the Small Business Administration to award grants to states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to provide health insurance information to small employers.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to award demonstration grants for states to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative ways to increase access to health insurance.
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to: (1) establish a special rule for redistribution of unspent FY2004 allotments; and (2) provide for additional allotments to eliminate FY2007 funding shortfalls remaining after redistribution of unspent FY2004 allotments. Renames such title the FamilyCare program and allows states to extend coverage to qualified children, parents, and pregnant women. Allows states to simplify the qualification and enrollment requirements.
Requires the Secretary to provide for improved outreach and enrollment in government programs for eligible children and homeless individuals and families.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that appropriations for consolidated health centers and the National Health Service Corps should be doubled over the next five fiscal years.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award grants to states for the promotion of healthy lifestyles and for the establishment and operation of worksite wellness programs for small employers and their employees; (2) expand comprehensive school health education programs; and (3) establish demonstration projects related to providing low-cost, high-quality health care and attracting educators and clinical practitioners to underserved areas.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 4, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 4, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 4, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S149-150)
- Jan 4, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S211–S213 | Susan M. Collins R-ME | Jan 8, 2007 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S149–S151 | Mary L. Landrieu D-LA, Susan M. Collins R-ME | Jan 4, 2007 |
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.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL32275 | Small Business Tax Preferences: Significant Legislative Proposals in the 110th Congress Archived | Report | Jun 7, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Access to Affordable Health Care Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Block grants
- Caregivers
- Child nutrition
- Chronically ill
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Consumer protection
- Cooperative societies
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Disabled
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drug abuse
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee health benefits
- Excise tax
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food stamps
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health care fraud
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Homeless
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Income tax
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Indian medical care
- Insurance premiums
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legislation
- Lifestyle
- Long-term care
- Long-term care insurance
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental health services
- Minorities
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Parents
- Part-time employment
- Performance measurement
- Physical education and training
- Physicians
- Poor children
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Public health personnel
- Quality of care
- Reinsurance
- Retiree health benefits
- Rural health
- Scholarships
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- Self-employed
- Signs and symbols
- Small business
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Student loan funds
- Subsidies
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax exclusion
- Tax penalties
- Tax refunds
- Tax returns
- Taxation
- Urban affairs
- Urban areas
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare work participation
- WIC program
- Withholding tax
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
