Ending LGBT Health Disparities Act
Latest action · Aug 3, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
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.
- IntroducedJun 23, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ending LGBT Health Disparities Act - Sets forth provisions concerning the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax exclusion for employer-provided health care benefits to eligible beneficiaries of the employee and the qualifying children of such beneficiaries.
Limits preexisting condition exclusions.
Requires parity in the rights and obligations of a federal employee (defined to exclude members of the uniformed services) with a domestic partner and a married employee and the spouse.
Expands the definition of "spouse" and "married" for purposes of Medicare.
Phases out the 24-month waiting period for eligibility for hospital insurance benefits under Medicare.
Prohibits discrimination: (1) on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity under Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP), Medicare, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (2) on the basis of sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation by the Secretary of Defense against a former member of uniformed services entitled to medical care, and by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support demonstration projects to improve the health and health care of sexual or gender minorities.
Establishes within the Office of Minority Health an Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health to be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for LGBT Health.
Requires the HHS Secretary, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary, to establish the Center for Cultural Competence in Health Care.
Provides for expanded research concerning sexual and gender minority individuals and the collection of sexual or gender minority data in health programs and surveys.
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide benefits to surviving same-sex parents.
Cosponsors 24
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 23, 2009 to Nov 15, 2010, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jun 23, 2009 |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Original | Jun 23, 2009 |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Original | Jun 23, 2009 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Jun 23, 2009 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Jun 24, 2009 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Jun 24, 2009 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Jun 24, 2009 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Jun 25, 2009 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Jun 25, 2009 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Jun 25, 2009 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Jun 25, 2009 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Jun 25, 2009 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Jul 7, 2009 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Jul 7, 2009 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Jul 10, 2009 |
Actions 18
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 3, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- Jul 23, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
- Jun 26, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 24, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 24, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Aging
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Crime victims
- Crimes against women
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability and paralysis
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- HIV/AIDS
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax exclusion
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Marriage and family status
- Medicaid
- Medical research
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Military medicine
- Minority health
- Prescription drugs
- Research administration and funding
- Right of privacy
- Self-employed
- Sex offenses
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Teenage pregnancy
- Veterans' medical care
- Violent crime
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 23, 2009Introduced in House
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