HR 1546 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2011

Introduced Apr 14, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Jim Gerlach R-PA

Latest action · Apr 25, 2011 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.

IntroducedApr 14, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the cap on outpatient physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and occupational therapy services of the type furnished by a physician or as an incident to physicians' services.

Cosponsors 181

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 14, 2011 to Dec 18, 2012; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Xavier Becerra	Original	Apr 14, 2011
D-IN	André Carson		Apr 15, 2011
D-NY	Brian Higgins		May 4, 2011
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		May 4, 2011
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		May 4, 2011
D-OR	David Wu		May 4, 2011
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		May 4, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		May 4, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison		May 4, 2011
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		May 4, 2011
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 4, 2011
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		May 4, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 4, 2011
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 4, 2011
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 5, 2011
R-CA	Gary G. Miller		May 5, 2011
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		May 5, 2011
R-OH	Bill Johnson		May 13, 2011
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		May 13, 2011
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 13, 2011
R-AK	Don Young		May 13, 2011
D-TX	Gene Green		May 13, 2011
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		May 13, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		May 13, 2011
R-NC	Howard Coble		May 13, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 13, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		May 13, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 13, 2011
D-PA	Jason Altmire		May 25, 2011
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		May 25, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 3, 2011
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 13, 2011
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 13, 2011
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 13, 2011
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Jun 13, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jun 13, 2011
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jun 13, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jun 13, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jun 13, 2011
R-PA	Tom Marino		Jun 13, 2011
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jun 15, 2011
R-NJ	Jon Runyan		Jun 15, 2011
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Jun 15, 2011
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Jun 16, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jun 16, 2011
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jun 16, 2011
D-WI	Ron Kind		Jun 16, 2011
D-MA	Barney Frank		Jun 23, 2011
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Jun 23, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jun 23, 2011
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Jun 23, 2011
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 23, 2011
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jun 23, 2011
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jun 23, 2011
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jun 23, 2011
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jun 23, 2011
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Jun 24, 2011
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Jun 24, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Jul 8, 2011
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jul 8, 2011
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jul 8, 2011
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Jul 8, 2011
D-AR	Mike Ross		Jul 8, 2011
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jul 8, 2011
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 8, 2011
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jul 8, 2011
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Jul 19, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 19, 2011
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jul 19, 2011
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 21, 2011
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jul 21, 2011
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Jul 21, 2011
D-GA	John Lewis		Jul 22, 2011
D-NC	Brad Miller		Jul 26, 2011
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Jul 26, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 26, 2011
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Jul 26, 2011
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jul 26, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jul 26, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jul 27, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 27, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Jul 27, 2011
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Jul 27, 2011
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Jul 27, 2011
D-OK	Dan Boren		Jul 29, 2011
D-GA	John Barrow		Jul 29, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 29, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Aug 1, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps		Aug 1, 2011
R-KY	Geoff Davis		Aug 5, 2011
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Aug 26, 2011
D-VT	Peter Welch		Aug 26, 2011
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Aug 26, 2011
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Sep 9, 2011
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 9, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Sep 9, 2011
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Sep 9, 2011
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Sep 15, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Sep 23, 2011
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Sep 23, 2011
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Sep 23, 2011
D-MA	John W. Olver		Sep 23, 2011
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 23, 2011
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Sep 23, 2011
R-OH	Steve Austria		Sep 23, 2011
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 23, 2011
R-MS	Alan Nunnelee		Oct 6, 2011
D-KY	Ben Chandler		Oct 6, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Oct 6, 2011
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Oct 6, 2011
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Oct 6, 2011
R-NY	Peter T. King		Oct 6, 2011
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Oct 6, 2011
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Oct 6, 2011
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Oct 14, 2011
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Oct 14, 2011
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Nov 1, 2011
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Nov 1, 2011
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Nov 1, 2011
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Nov 1, 2011
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Nov 4, 2011
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Nov 16, 2011
R-SC	Jeff Duncan		Nov 18, 2011
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Nov 18, 2011
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Nov 18, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Dec 5, 2011
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Dec 5, 2011
R-GA	Paul C. Broun		Dec 5, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Dec 5, 2011
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Dec 5, 2011
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Dec 5, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Dec 8, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Dec 12, 2011
R-TX	Mac Thornberry		Dec 13, 2011
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Dec 16, 2011
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Dec 16, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Dec 20, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Jan 23, 2012
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jan 23, 2012
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jan 23, 2012
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Feb 9, 2012
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Feb 28, 2012
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Mar 1, 2012
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Mar 19, 2012
R-OR	Greg Walden		Apr 24, 2012
D-CT	John B. Larson		Apr 24, 2012
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Apr 24, 2012
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		Apr 24, 2012
R-KY	Harold Rogers		May 8, 2012
D-NC	David E. Price		May 16, 2012
R-NE	Lee Terry		May 16, 2012
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		May 16, 2012
R-MO	Sam Graves		May 31, 2012
R-CO	Cory Gardner		Jun 19, 2012
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jun 19, 2012
R-SC	Tim Scott		Jun 19, 2012
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Jun 27, 2012
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		Jun 29, 2012
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Jul 9, 2012
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jul 11, 2012
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Jul 19, 2012
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jul 23, 2012
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 23, 2012
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Jul 23, 2012
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Jul 24, 2012
D-GA	David Scott		Jul 24, 2012
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Jul 24, 2012
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Jul 25, 2012
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Aug 1, 2012
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Aug 1, 2012
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 10, 2012
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Sep 12, 2012
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Nov 9, 2012
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Nov 9, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Nov 13, 2012
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Nov 27, 2012
R-MO	Billy Long		Nov 30, 2012
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Nov 30, 2012
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Dec 3, 2012
R-CA	Devin Nunes		Dec 12, 2012
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Dec 18, 2012

Committees 2

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 14, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 25, 2011
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 14, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 19, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 25, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 19, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 14, 2011Introduced in House
Apr 14, 2011Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 E717	Xavier Becerra D-CA	Apr 14, 2011

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 7 of Section 9 of Article I of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H2856.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 829	Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2011	Identical bill	Apr 14, 2011

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.
Short Titles as Introduced: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2011

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 14, 2011Introduced in House

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