S 2510 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007

Introduced Dec 18, 2007 Originated Senate Sponsor Mary L. Landrieu D-LA

Latest action · Dec 18, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15920-15921)

Progress

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IntroducedDec 18, 2007
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services, to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytological preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; (2) maintain a record of program results; (3) require the laboratory director to consider such results and other performance metrics in reviewing the performance of individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations; and (4) submit the continuing education program results for each individual and plans for corrective action or remedial training in a timely manner to the laboratory's accrediting organization for purposes of review and ongoing monitoring.

Requires the Secretary to terminate individual proficiency testing that was in effect before enactment of this Act.

Cosponsors 43

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 18, 2007 to Dec 10, 2008; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-GA	Johnny Isakson	Original	Dec 18, 2007
D-MN	Amy Klobuchar		Dec 19, 2007
D-MT	Jon Tester		Feb 12, 2008
D-MI	Carl Levin		Feb 25, 2008
R-NC	Richard Burr		Feb 28, 2008
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Apr 2, 2008
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Apr 2, 2008
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow		Apr 7, 2008
R-ME	Susan M. Collins		Apr 9, 2008
D-IA	Tom Harkin		Apr 14, 2008
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		Apr 15, 2008
R-GA	Saxby Chambliss		Apr 16, 2008
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse		Apr 21, 2008
D-SD	Tim Johnson		Apr 24, 2008
R-NC	Elizabeth Dole		May 6, 2008
D-IN	Evan Bayh		May 6, 2008
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold		May 7, 2008
R-MN	Norm Coleman		Jun 16, 2008
D-MO	Claire McCaskill		Jun 19, 2008
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy		Jun 23, 2008
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Jun 26, 2008
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker		Jul 7, 2008
D-HI	Daniel K. Inouye		Jul 8, 2008
I-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman		Jul 8, 2008
R-KS	Pat Roberts		Jul 9, 2008
D-NJ	Frank R. Lautenberg		Jul 23, 2008
D-WA	Maria Cantwell		Jul 23, 2008
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer		Jul 28, 2008
D-WI	Herb Kohl		Jul 29, 2008
R-OH	George V. Voinovich		Jul 31, 2008
R-UT	Robert F. Bennett		Jul 31, 2008
R-WY	John Barrasso		Aug 1, 2008
R-TN	Lamar Alexander		Aug 1, 2008
D-CA	Barbara Boxer		Sep 8, 2008
R-KS	Sam Brownback		Sep 8, 2008
D-DE	Thomas R. Carper		Sep 11, 2008
R-AL	Jeff Sessions		Sep 18, 2008
R-NH	John E. Sununu		Sep 23, 2008
D-ND	Byron L. Dorgan		Sep 24, 2008
R-KY	Jim Bunning		Sep 24, 2008
R-SC	Lindsey Graham		Sep 24, 2008
R-TX	John Cornyn		Oct 1, 2008
R-SD	John Thune		Dec 10, 2008

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee	Referred Dec 19, 2007

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 18, 2007Introduced in Senate
Dec 18, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15920)
Dec 18, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15920-15921)

In the Congressional Record 1

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 S15920Text printed S15920	Mary L. Landrieu D-LA (text)	Dec 18, 2007

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1237	Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2008	Related bill	Apr 9, 2008

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide revised standards for quality assurance in screening and evaluation of gynecologic cytology preparations, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 18, 2007Introduced in Senate

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