HR 1670 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Community Choice Act of 2009

Introduced Mar 23, 2009 Originated House Sponsor Danny K. Davis D-IL

Latest action · Mar 24, 2009 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.

IntroducedMar 23, 2009
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Community Choice Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.

Outlines requirements for: (1) an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for ongoing activities of early coverage states that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the state for the provision of such services and supports.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible states which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the state in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to dually eligible individuals.

Cosponsors 131

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 23, 2009 to Sep 28, 2010; 25 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-PA	Chaka Fattah	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-PA	Christopher P. Carney	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-KS	Dennis Moore	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-PA	Joe Sestak	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Mar 23, 2009
D-MA	Barney Frank		Mar 25, 2009
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Mar 25, 2009
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 25, 2009
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Mar 25, 2009
D-VA	James P. Moran		Mar 25, 2009
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 25, 2009
D-CO	Jared Polis		Mar 25, 2009
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Mar 25, 2009
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Mar 25, 2009
R-NY	John M. McHugh		Mar 25, 2009
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Mar 25, 2009
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 25, 2009
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Mar 25, 2009
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Mar 25, 2009
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 25, 2009
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Mar 25, 2009
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Mar 30, 2009
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Mar 30, 2009
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 30, 2009
R-AL	Jo Bonner		Mar 30, 2009
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Mar 30, 2009
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Mar 30, 2009
D-NY	Eric J. J. Massa		Mar 31, 2009
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Mar 31, 2009
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Mar 31, 2009
D-PA	Patrick J. Murphy		Mar 31, 2009
D-TX	Gene Green		Apr 1, 2009
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Apr 1, 2009
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 1, 2009
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Apr 22, 2009
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Apr 22, 2009
D-FL	Kendrick B. Meek		Apr 22, 2009
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Apr 22, 2009
D-NH	Paul W. Hodes		Apr 22, 2009
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Apr 22, 2009
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 27, 2009
D-PA	Jason Altmire		Apr 27, 2009
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Apr 27, 2009
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Apr 27, 2009
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Apr 28, 2009
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Apr 28, 2009
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		Apr 29, 2009
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Apr 29, 2009
D-CA	Bob Filner		May 4, 2009
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		May 4, 2009
R-NY	Peter T. King		May 4, 2009
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		May 7, 2009
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 7, 2009
D-IN	Brad Ellsworth		May 12, 2009
R-AK	Don Young		May 12, 2009
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 12, 2009
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		May 13, 2009
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 13, 2009
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		May 18, 2009
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		May 18, 2009
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		May 21, 2009
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jun 3, 2009
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jun 8, 2009
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Jun 9, 2009
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		Jun 9, 2009
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jun 11, 2009
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Jun 11, 2009
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Jun 11, 2009
D-NY	Daniel B. Maffei		Jun 11, 2009
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Jun 11, 2009
D-PA	Tim Holden		Jun 11, 2009
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Jun 15, 2009
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jun 16, 2009
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jun 17, 2009
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Jun 26, 2009
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Jun 26, 2009
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Jul 9, 2009
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jul 13, 2009
D-OH	Mary Jo Kilroy		Jul 13, 2009
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jul 13, 2009
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jul 13, 2009
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jul 14, 2009
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 14, 2009
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Jul 17, 2009
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Jul 17, 2009
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 22, 2009
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 23, 2009
D-PA	Kathleen A. Dahlkemper		Jul 24, 2009
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jul 29, 2009
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Jul 31, 2009
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 8, 2009
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		Sep 8, 2009
D-IL	Melissa L. Bean		Sep 17, 2009
D-NY	Michael A. Arcuri		Sep 21, 2009
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Sep 25, 2009
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 25, 2009
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Oct 21, 2009
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Oct 27, 2009
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Oct 29, 2009
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jan 13, 2010
D-NC	Brad Miller		Mar 2, 2010
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Apr 14, 2010
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Apr 22, 2010
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 6, 2010
D-UT	Jim Matheson		May 18, 2010
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 24, 2010
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 21, 2010
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jul 26, 2010
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jul 29, 2010
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Sep 23, 2010
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 28, 2010

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 23, 2009
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 24, 2009

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 24, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 23, 2009Introduced in House
Mar 23, 2009Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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 S8121–S8124	Tom Harkin D-IA	Jul 27, 2009

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 683	Community Choice Act of 2009	Identical bill	Mar 24, 2009

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide individuals with disabilities and older Americans with equal access to community-based attendant services and supports, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Community Choice Act of 2009

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 23, 2009Introduced in House

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