Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2009
Latest action · May 14, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
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.
- IntroducedApr 2, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2009 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to require the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue and periodically review standards setting forth the minimum technical criteria for medical diagnostic equipment used in medical settings, to ensure that such equipment: (1) is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and (2) allows independent entry to, use of, and exit from the equipment by such individuals to the maximum extent possible. Applies such standards to examination tables and chairs, weight scales, mammography equipment, x-ray machines, and other radiological equipment commonly used for diagnostic purposes by health professionals. Sets forth interim standards for such equipment.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for programs to promote good health, disease prevention, and wellness for individuals with disabilities and prevent secondary conditions in such individuals. Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Wellness for Individuals With Disabilities to set priorities to carry out such programs, review grant proposals, make recommendations for funding, and annually evaluate the progress of such programs in implementing the priorities.
Provides for training programs to improve competency and clinical skills for providing health care and communicating with patients with disabilities through training integrated into the core curriculum and patient interaction in community-based settings.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
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 Apr 2, 2009 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 21, 2009 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Apr 2, 2009 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Apr 2, 2009 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred May 14, 2009 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 14, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
- Apr 21, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 2, 2009Introduced in House
- Apr 2, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- Apr 2, 2009Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.
- Apr 2, 2009Referred to House Ways and Means
- Apr 2, 2009Referred to House Education and Labor
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Public Health Service Act to set standards for medical diagnostic equipment and to establish a program for promoting good health, disease prevention, and wellness and for the prevention of secondary conditions for individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2009
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access Board
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advisory bodies
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability and paralysis
- Health
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 2, 2009Introduced in House
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