HR 1173 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 14, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Earl Blumenauer D-OR

Latest action · Apr 11, 2013 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.

IntroducedMar 14, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Personalize Your Care Act of 2013 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to cover a Voluntary Advance Care Planning Consultation.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to eligible entities to: (1) establish statewide programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment, or (2) expand or enhance existing programs for physician orders for life-sustaining treatment.

Directs the Secretary to adopt, by rule, standards for a qualified electronic health record, with respect to patient communications with a health care provider about values and goals of care, to adequately display the patient's current: (1) advance directive, and/or (2) physician order for life-sustaining treatment.

Requires under Medicare and Medicaid that an advance directive validly executed outside the state in which the directive is presented must be given effect by a service provider or an organization to the same extent as an advance directive validly executed under the law of the state in which it is presented. Requires that, in the absence of a validly executed advance directive, any authentic expression of a person's wishes with respect to health care be honored.

Cosponsors 59

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2013 to Sep 17, 2014; 10 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-CA	Ami Bera	Original	Mar 14, 2013
R-TN	David P. Roe	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Mar 14, 2013
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Mar 14, 2013
R-NY	Tom Reed	Original	Mar 14, 2013
D-CA	Sam Farr		Mar 21, 2013
D-CT	John B. Larson		Apr 17, 2013
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Apr 17, 2013
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		May 8, 2013
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Jul 11, 2013
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Jul 23, 2013
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Jul 23, 2013
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Aug 2, 2013
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Sep 9, 2013
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Sep 23, 2013
D-VA	James P. Moran		Sep 23, 2013
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Sep 23, 2013
D-GA	John Lewis		Sep 23, 2013
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 23, 2013
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		Sep 23, 2013
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 23, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel		Sep 23, 2013
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Sep 25, 2013
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Sep 26, 2013
D-CA	John Garamendi		Sep 26, 2013
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Oct 14, 2013
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Oct 14, 2013
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Oct 14, 2013
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Oct 14, 2013
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Oct 14, 2013
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Oct 14, 2013
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Oct 15, 2013
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Oct 15, 2013
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Oct 23, 2013
D-NY	William L. Owens		Oct 23, 2013
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Nov 12, 2013
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Nov 12, 2013
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Dec 16, 2013
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jan 8, 2014
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Feb 6, 2014
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Feb 6, 2014
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Feb 6, 2014
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Feb 6, 2014
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Feb 6, 2014
D-NC	David E. Price		Feb 11, 2014
D-NV	Dina Titus		Feb 11, 2014
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Feb 11, 2014
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Feb 11, 2014
D-VT	Peter Welch		Feb 14, 2014
D-CT	James A. Himes		Mar 11, 2014
R-IL	John Shimkus		Mar 13, 2014
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Apr 10, 2014
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jul 9, 2014
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Sep 17, 2014

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 Mar 14, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 15, 2013
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 14, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 11, 2013

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 11, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House
Mar 14, 2013Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E300)
Mar 14, 2013Referred 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 9

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
House	Debate and remarks H7621	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Sep 17, 2014
House	Debate and remarks H2648	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Mar 26, 2014
House	Debate and remarks H2307	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Mar 12, 2014
House	Debate and remarks H2171, H2172	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Mar 5, 2014
House	Debate and remarks H6833	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Oct 29, 2013

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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: This bill modifies the Social Security Act, which Congress enacted pursuant to its powers under the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, as well as its powers to tax and spend for the general welfare. Congress has the power under those provisions to enact this legislation as well.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1429.

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of voluntary advance care planning consultation under Medicare and Medicaid, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Personalize Your Care Act of 2013

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House

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