HR 5942 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act

Introduced Jun 8, 2012 Originated House Sponsor Tom Price R-GA

Latest action · Jun 26, 2012 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 8, 2012
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act - Amends the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 to repeal its revisions to requirements for contracts with Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs).

Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to specify expenditures or funding for: (1) 3-year QIO contracts for contract periods beginning on or after August 1, 2014, and ending on or before July 31, 2021, but with a certain reduction in aggregate funds payable after October 1, 2014; and (2) contracts with utilization and quality control peer review organizations for any contract period beginning on or after August 1, 2014.

Cosponsors 23

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 8, 2012 to Dec 18, 2012; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-AR	Mike Ross	Original	Jun 8, 2012
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Jun 8, 2012
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jun 18, 2012
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Jun 19, 2012
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Jun 25, 2012
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Jun 27, 2012
D-GA	John Barrow		Jul 11, 2012
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Jul 11, 2012
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jul 17, 2012
R-NY	Nan A. S. Hayworth		Jul 24, 2012
R-TX	Joe Barton		Aug 2, 2012
D-CT	John B. Larson		Aug 2, 2012
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Aug 2, 2012
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Aug 2, 2012
R-ND	Rick Berg		Aug 2, 2012
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Sep 13, 2012
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 13, 2012
D-GA	John Lewis		Sep 13, 2012
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Sep 13, 2012
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Sep 28, 2012
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Dec 18, 2012
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Dec 18, 2012
R-IA	Tom Latham		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	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jun 8, 2012
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 26, 2012
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jun 8, 2012
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jun 8, 2012

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 26, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 8, 2012Introduced in House
Jun 8, 2012Referred 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.
Jun 8, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 Imposes Congressional accountability for the spending of the other branches of government. Congress has the duty to fund and provide oversight to the federal administrative agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and direct the manner in which they expend taxpayer funds.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H3699.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 3659	Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act	Identical bill	Dec 5, 2012

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To repeal certain changes to contracts with Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Quality Improvement Organization Program Restoration Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 8, 2012Introduced in House

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