HR 816 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act

Introduced Feb 3, 2009 Originated House Sponsor Chet Edwards D-TX

Latest action · Feb 24, 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.

IntroducedFeb 3, 2009
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) and the nation have a committed health benefits obligation to retired military personnel that exceeds the obligation of corporate employers to civilian employees; and (2) DOD has many additional options to constrain the growth of health care spending in ways that do not disadvantage beneficiaries, and should pursue such options rather than seeking large fee increases for beneficiaries.

Prohibits an increase after: (1) April 1, 2006, in a premium, deductible, copayment, or other charge prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for medical and dental health care coverage for military personnel; and (2) September 30, 2009, in the dollar amount of a cost-sharing requirement under the DOD pharmacy benefits program.

Prohibits: (1) charges for DOD inpatient care from exceeding $535 per day; and (2) beginning on January 1, 2009, an increase in premiums under TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program) for certain members of the Selected Reserve.

Cosponsors 202

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 3, 2009 to Sep 22, 2010; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Feb 3, 2009
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Feb 11, 2009
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Feb 11, 2009
D-MA	Barney Frank		Feb 11, 2009
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Feb 11, 2009
D-CA	Bob Filner		Feb 11, 2009
D-OH	Charles A. Wilson		Feb 11, 2009
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Feb 11, 2009
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Feb 11, 2009
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 11, 2009
D-AZ	Gabrielle Giffords		Feb 11, 2009
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Feb 11, 2009
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Feb 11, 2009
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Feb 11, 2009
D-NJ	John H. Adler		Feb 11, 2009
D-NY	John J. Hall		Feb 11, 2009
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Feb 11, 2009
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Feb 11, 2009
D-AR	Marion Berry		Feb 11, 2009
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Feb 11, 2009
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Feb 11, 2009
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Feb 11, 2009
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Feb 11, 2009
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Feb 11, 2009
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Feb 11, 2009
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Feb 11, 2009
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		Feb 11, 2009
D-WI	Steve Kagen		Feb 11, 2009
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young		Feb 12, 2009
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Feb 12, 2009
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Feb 23, 2009
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Feb 23, 2009
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Feb 23, 2009
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Feb 23, 2009
D-MS	Gene Taylor		Feb 23, 2009
D-PA	Jason Altmire		Feb 23, 2009
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Feb 23, 2009
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Feb 23, 2009
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Feb 23, 2009
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Feb 23, 2009
D-FL	Suzanne M. Kosmas		Feb 23, 2009
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Feb 25, 2009
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Feb 25, 2009
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Feb 25, 2009
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Feb 25, 2009
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Feb 25, 2009
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Feb 25, 2009
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Feb 25, 2009
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray		Feb 26, 2009
R-AK	Don Young		Feb 26, 2009
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Feb 26, 2009
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Mar 4, 2009
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 4, 2009
D-NM	Harry Teague		Mar 4, 2009
R-AR	John Boozman		Mar 4, 2009
D-AR	Mike Ross		Mar 4, 2009
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Mar 4, 2009
D-CA	Sam Farr		Mar 4, 2009
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Mar 4, 2009
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Mar 5, 2009
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Mar 5, 2009
D-GA	John Barrow		Mar 5, 2009
D-NH	Paul W. Hodes		Mar 5, 2009
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Mar 5, 2009
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Mar 9, 2009
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Mar 9, 2009
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		Mar 9, 2009
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		Mar 12, 2009
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Mar 12, 2009
R-TX	Ron Paul		Mar 12, 2009
D-ID	Walter Minnick		Mar 12, 2009
R-KY	Geoff Davis		Mar 17, 2009
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		Mar 17, 2009
R-GA	Phil Gingrey		Mar 17, 2009
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Mar 17, 2009
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Mar 19, 2009
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Mar 19, 2009
R-FL	John L. Mica		Mar 19, 2009
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Mar 19, 2009
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Mar 19, 2009
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Mar 19, 2009
D-PA	Christopher P. Carney		Mar 23, 2009
D-NV	Dina Titus		Mar 23, 2009
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Mar 23, 2009
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 24, 2009
R-TX	John R. Carter		Mar 24, 2009
R-AL	Parker Griffith		Mar 26, 2009
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Apr 1, 2009
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Apr 1, 2009
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 1, 2009
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Apr 1, 2009
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Apr 1, 2009
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Apr 21, 2009
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Apr 21, 2009
R-AL	Jo Bonner		Apr 21, 2009
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Apr 21, 2009
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Apr 21, 2009
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Apr 21, 2009
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 21, 2009
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Apr 21, 2009
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Apr 21, 2009
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Apr 21, 2009
D-CO	Betsy Markey		Apr 23, 2009
D-IN	Brad Ellsworth		Apr 23, 2009
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Apr 23, 2009
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Apr 23, 2009
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Apr 23, 2009
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Apr 23, 2009
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Apr 29, 2009
R-IN	Dan Burton		Apr 29, 2009
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Apr 29, 2009
R-GA	Paul C. Broun		Apr 29, 2009
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Apr 29, 2009
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Apr 29, 2009
D-WI	Ron Kind		Apr 29, 2009
R-LA	Steve Scalise		Apr 29, 2009
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Apr 29, 2009
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Apr 29, 2009
D-IN	Baron P. Hill		May 7, 2009
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		May 7, 2009
D-OK	Dan Boren		May 7, 2009
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.		May 7, 2009
R-MI	Mike Rogers		May 7, 2009
D-OH	Zachary T. Space		May 7, 2009
D-MI	Bart Stupak		May 13, 2009
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		May 13, 2009
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 13, 2009
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		May 19, 2009
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz		May 19, 2009
R-CA	Ken Calvert		May 19, 2009
R-AZ	Trent Franks		May 19, 2009
D-KY	Ben Chandler		Jun 2, 2009
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Jun 2, 2009
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jun 2, 2009
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Jun 2, 2009
D-OR	David Wu		Jun 2, 2009
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Jun 2, 2009
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Jun 2, 2009
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Jun 2, 2009
D-AZ	Harry E. Mitchell		Jun 2, 2009
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Jun 2, 2009
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jun 2, 2009
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jun 2, 2009
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jun 2, 2009
D-FL	Ron Klein		Jun 2, 2009
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Jun 3, 2009
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jun 3, 2009
D-VA	Glenn C. Nye		Jun 8, 2009
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jun 8, 2009
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 9, 2009
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Jun 9, 2009
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jun 9, 2009
D-AL	Bobby Bright		Jun 12, 2009
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jun 12, 2009
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jun 12, 2009
R-MO	Sam Graves		Jun 12, 2009
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Jun 16, 2009
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 18, 2009
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 18, 2009
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Jun 23, 2009
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jun 23, 2009
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Jun 24, 2009
D-NY	Eric J. J. Massa		Jul 17, 2009
D-MD	Frank Kratovil, Jr.		Jul 21, 2009
R-FL	Adam H. Putnam		Sep 22, 2009
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 22, 2009
R-SC	Bob Inglis		Sep 22, 2009
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 22, 2009
R-TN	David P. Roe		Sep 22, 2009
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Sep 22, 2009
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 22, 2009
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Sep 22, 2009
D-OH	John A. Boccieri		Sep 22, 2009
D-PA	Kathleen A. Dahlkemper		Sep 22, 2009
D-TN	Lincoln Davis		Sep 22, 2009
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Sep 22, 2009
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi		Sep 22, 2009
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt		Sep 22, 2009
D-AL	Artur Davis		Sep 23, 2009
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Sep 23, 2009
R-FL	Connie Mack		Sep 23, 2009
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Sep 23, 2009
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Sep 23, 2009
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Sep 23, 2009
D-NY	Steve Israel		Sep 23, 2009
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Oct 7, 2009
R-FL	Bill Posey		Oct 7, 2009
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Oct 7, 2009
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		Oct 7, 2009
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Oct 7, 2009
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Oct 7, 2009
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Oct 27, 2009
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Dec 11, 2009
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Feb 3, 2010
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Feb 3, 2010
R-MN	John Kline		Mar 12, 2010
D-NC	Heath Shuler		Mar 17, 2010
D-NY	Michael A. Arcuri		Apr 15, 2010
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Jun 10, 2010
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Sep 14, 2010
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Sep 22, 2010
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 22, 2010

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Feb 3, 2009
	Military Personnel Subcommittee	Referred Feb 24, 2009

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 24, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Feb 3, 2009Introduced in House
Feb 3, 2009Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 8

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
—	DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 201199 pages	Appropriations Committee	Jun 23, 2010
S. Hrg. 111-701	DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011476 pages	Armed Services Committee	Mar 10, 2010–May 12, 2010
S. Hrg. 111-688	Department of Defense Appropriations, 2011589 pages	Appropriations Committee	Mar 3, 2010–Jun 23, 2010
S. Hrg. 111-480	OVERSIGHT OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD97 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Jul 7, 2009
—	DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010123 pages	Appropriations Committee	Jun 18, 2009

Show all 8 hearings

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit certain increases in fees for military health care.
Short Titles as Introduced: Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 3, 2009Introduced in House

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