A bill to extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a rule regarding graduate medical education under Medicaid and to include a moratorium on the finalization of the outpatient Medicaid rule making similar changes.
Latest action · Dec 12, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15249-15250)
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.
- IntroducedDec 12, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 1997 to extend by one year the moratorium on: (1) implementation of a specified rule relating to the federal-state financial partnership under titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)) of the Social Security Act; and (2) the finalization of a certain proposed rule regarding the authority of states to make payments related to graduate medical education (GME payments).
Imposes a one-year moratorium on finalization or implementation of a certain proposed rule regarding the scope of permissible Medicaid payments that redefines outpatient hospitals and specifies methodologies for calculation of the outpatient services upper payment limit.
Cosponsors 38
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 12, 2007 to May 13, 2008, with 23 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| R-MO | Christopher S. Bond | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-CA | Dianne Feinstein | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| R-NC | Elizabeth Dole | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-WV | John D. Rockefeller IV | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| R-GA | Johnny Isakson | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
| R-TX | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Original | Dec 12, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 12, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Dec 12, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15249-15250)
- Dec 12, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15248-15249)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Ambulatory care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Higher education
- Hospital care
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Law
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical residents
- Medically uninsured
- Poor children
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 12, 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.