Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009
Latest action · Dec 1, 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.
- IntroducedNov 19, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) allow a higher payment to states for routine HIV/AIDS and STI (sexually transmitted infections recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) screening services; and (2) require coverage of low-income HIV/AIDS infected individuals.
Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt a broad policy for voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening for all Medicare beneficiaries who are 13 years of age or older.
Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to federally qualified health centers to provide voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health plans to provide routine HIV/AIDS and STI screening.
Requires the Director of the CDC to: (1) track national HIV/AIDS and STI screening trends and the burdens of HIV/AIDS and STIs among people with disabilities; (2) make sex education materials that promote voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs accessible to the deaf and hearing loss community and to people with intellectual disabilities; (3) ensure that national screening guidelines for cervical cancer state that women who have sex with women should have the same guidelines as women who have sex only with men; and (4) improve information collection concerning the transmission, morbidity, and screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs in transgender communities.
Cosponsors 40
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 19, 2009 to Mar 3, 2010; 16 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-TX | Al Green | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Original | Nov 19, 2009 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-MD | Donna F. Edwards | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Dec 1, 2009 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Dec 2, 2009 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Dec 7, 2009 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Dec 10, 2009 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Dec 10, 2009 | |
| D-FL | Kendrick B. Meek | Dec 10, 2009 | |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Dec 10, 2009 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Dec 10, 2009 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Dec 14, 2009 | |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Dec 14, 2009 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Dec 14, 2009 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Dec 15, 2009 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Jan 13, 2010 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jan 20, 2010 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Feb 2, 2010 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 4, 2010 | |
| D-CO | Jared Polis | Feb 4, 2010 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Feb 22, 2010 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Mar 3, 2010 |
Committees 4
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 Nov 19, 2009 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 1, 2009 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Nov 19, 2009 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Nov 19, 2009 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Nov 19, 2009 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 1, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Nov 19, 2009Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2824)
- Nov 19, 2009Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- Nov 19, 2009Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E2824 | Alcee L. Hastings D-FL | Nov 19, 2009 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for an evidence-based strategy for voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and other common sexually transmitted infections, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Cancer
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability and paralysis
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee benefits and pensions
- 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
- Higher education
- HIV/AIDS
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Minority health
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2009Introduced in House
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