Congress 112 - HR 6138 - Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Act of 2012

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Administrative law and regulatory procedures Child health Congressional oversight Correctional facilities and imprisonment Crime prevention Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Disability and health-based discrimination Drug therapy Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Family planning and birth control Foreign aid and international relief Health Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health information and medical records Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Higher education HIV/AIDS Human rights Infectious and parasitic diseases Intellectual property Medicaid Medical education Medical research Medical tests and diagnostic methods Medicare Mental health Military law Performance measurement Prescription drugs Religion Research administration and funding Right of privacy Sex and reproductive health Sex offenses Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Trade restrictions Women's health World health

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Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Act of 2012 - Sets forth provisions addressing HIV/AIDS, including through:

the authorization of additional appropriations for AIDS Drug Assistance Program treatments;
public health surveillance;
strategies to address issues that impede disease status awareness and linkage to and retention in appropriate care;
operational and translational research on HIV;
workforce initiatives to increase the capacity of the health workforce focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS;
educational loan repayment of health professionals;
activities to reduce the rate of HIV infections among injecting drug users;
grants for comprehensive sex education for young people;
best practice recommendations regarding criminal and related civil commitment cases involving people living with HIV/AIDS;
the distribution of sexual barrier devices in federal correctional facilities;
the enrollment in the Medicaid program of HIV-positive individuals after their release from incarceration;
the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy;
a strategy to expand and improve efforts to combat global HIV/AIDS;
the repeal of provisions prohibiting organizations receiving certain funding from being required to endorse or utilize a comprehensive approach to combating global HIV/AIDS; and
a global HIV sexual transmission prevention strategy.

Actions

Oct 23, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
Sep 26, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Sep 26, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Aug 3, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Aug 1, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Jul 25, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Jul 20, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 19, 2012

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5026)
Jul 18, 2012

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Armed Services, Financial Services, and 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.
Jul 18, 2012

Introduced in House

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