HR 2267 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2011

Introduced Jun 21, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Greg Walden R-OR

Latest action · Jul 7, 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.

IntroducedJun 21, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise conditions of and limitations on payment for home health care services.

Allows payment for home health services to Medicare beneficiaries by: (1) a nurse practitioner, (2) a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician in accordance with state law, (3) a certified nurse-midwife, or (4) a physician assistant under a physician's supervision.

Cosponsors 122

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 21, 2011 to Nov 16, 2012; 27 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-KY	Ben Chandler	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NH	Charles F. Bass	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-OR	David Wu	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NE	Lee Terry	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NJ	Leonard Lance	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-PA	Lou Barletta	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-CO	Mike Coffman	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Jun 21, 2011
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-IA	Tom Latham	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Jun 21, 2011
R-NC	Howard Coble		Jul 5, 2011
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jul 5, 2011
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jul 5, 2011
D-PA	Jason Altmire		Jul 20, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 20, 2011
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 20, 2011
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		Jul 20, 2011
R-TX	Ron Paul		Jul 20, 2011
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Aug 1, 2011
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Aug 1, 2011
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Aug 1, 2011
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Aug 1, 2011
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Sep 14, 2011
D-IA	David Loebsack		Sep 14, 2011
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Sep 14, 2011
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 14, 2011
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Sep 14, 2011
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Sep 14, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Sep 14, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Oct 4, 2011
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Oct 4, 2011
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Oct 4, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Oct 4, 2011
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Oct 4, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Oct 4, 2011
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Oct 4, 2011
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Oct 4, 2011
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Oct 4, 2011
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Oct 4, 2011
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Oct 4, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Oct 4, 2011
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Oct 13, 2011
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Oct 13, 2011
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Oct 13, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Oct 13, 2011
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Oct 13, 2011
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Oct 13, 2011
D-NC	Brad Miller		Dec 1, 2011
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis		Dec 1, 2011
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Dec 1, 2011
R-AK	Don Young		Dec 1, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Dec 1, 2011
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Dec 1, 2011
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Dec 1, 2011
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Dec 1, 2011
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Dec 1, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Dec 1, 2011
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Dec 1, 2011
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Dec 1, 2011
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Dec 1, 2011
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson		Dec 1, 2011
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Feb 27, 2012
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Feb 27, 2012
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Feb 27, 2012
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Feb 27, 2012
D-CA	Joe Baca		Feb 27, 2012
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Feb 27, 2012
D-MA	William R. Keating		Feb 27, 2012
R-OH	Bill Johnson		May 9, 2012
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 9, 2012
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 9, 2012
R-CO	Cory Gardner		May 9, 2012
R-MO	Sam Graves		May 9, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		May 9, 2012
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		May 9, 2012
D-PA	Tim Holden		May 9, 2012
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 9, 2012
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Jun 1, 2012
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Jun 1, 2012
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jun 1, 2012
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Jun 1, 2012
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jun 18, 2012
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jun 18, 2012
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jun 18, 2012
D-MA	John W. Olver		Jun 18, 2012
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Jun 18, 2012
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		Jun 18, 2012
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Jun 18, 2012
R-WA	Doc Hastings		Jun 19, 2012
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jun 25, 2012
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Jul 17, 2012
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Jul 17, 2012
D-MI	Hansen Clarke		Jul 17, 2012
R-TX	John R. Carter		Jul 17, 2012
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jul 17, 2012
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jul 17, 2012
D-CT	James A. Himes		Aug 2, 2012
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Aug 2, 2012
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 19, 2012
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Sep 19, 2012
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 19, 2012
D-NY	Kathleen C. Hochul		Sep 21, 2012
R-AR	Tim Griffin		Oct 5, 2012
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Nov 16, 2012
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Nov 16, 2012

Committees 2

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jun 21, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jul 7, 2011
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jun 21, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 22, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 7, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 22, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 21, 2011Introduced in House
Jun 21, 2011Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

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

[Pages H4365-H4366] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] By Mr. WALDEN: H.R. 2267. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is pursuant to the following: 1) Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: ``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States'' 2) Article I, Section 1--All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H4366.

Related bills 5

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 227	Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2011	Identical bill	Jan 31, 2011
S 1680	Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2011	Related bill	Oct 11, 2011
HR 3859	Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2012	Related bill	Feb 9, 2012
HR 5194	Rural Hospital and Provider Equity and 340B Improvement Act of 2012	Related bill	May 2, 2012
HR 5624	Rural Hospital and Provider Equity and 340B Improvement Act of 2012	Related bill	May 15, 2012

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 ensure more timely access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program.
Short Titles as Introduced: Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2011

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 21, 2011Introduced in House

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