HR 1666 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act

Introduced Apr 23, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Emanuel Cleaver D-MO

Latest action · Apr 26, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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IntroducedApr 23, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convene a Patient-Centered Health Care and Quality of Life Stakeholder Strategic Summit to: (1) analyze key health system barriers to providing patient-centered health care that integrates symptom management and other aspects of coordinated or palliative care; and (2) identify strategic solutions for collectively addressing quality of life concerns for the rapidly expanding population of patients and survivors facing serious, complex, and chronic illness in the United States and for the families of such patients and survivors. Requires the Secretary to establish a Summit Steering Committee, which shall draft a summary report detailing Summit recommendations for a national strategic action agenda to improve patient-centered care and quality of life.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a national quality of life education and awareness grants program initiative for seriously ill patients, their families, and health professionals who treat them for the purposes of encouraging an increased demand for and delivery of integrated and patient-centered care for managing their pain and symptoms and improving their quality of life. Requires the Director to award competitive grants to develop new and expand existing information, resources, and communication materials about symptom management and other aspects of patient-centered care as an integral part of quality care for serious illnesses.

Directs the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish a health care professional workforce training grants program initiative for purposes of promoting and enhancing symptom assessment and management, communications skills, coordinated patient-centered care, and other quality of life focused clinical core competencies across all clinical specialties that serve seriously ill patients and patients with multiple or complex chronic diseases.

Requires the Secretary: (1) to update and expand the September 2002 HRSA report, titled "The Supply, Demand and Use of Palliative Care Physicians in the United States"; (2) to establish a Quality of Life Cross-Agency Advisory Committee to assist the CDC and HRSA in conducting the national quality of life education and awareness initiative and the health care professional workforce training initiative and to disseminate initiative findings for cross agency implementation of best practices; and (3) acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and implement a strategy to be applied across NIH institutes and centers that is in accordance with the Advisory Committee's recommendations to expand national research programs in symptom management, palliative, psychosocial, and survivorship care.

Cosponsors 137

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 23, 2013 to Dec 11, 2014; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-AL	Spencer Bachus	Original	Apr 23, 2013
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Apr 26, 2013
R-IA	Tom Latham		May 17, 2013
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jun 4, 2013
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Jun 4, 2013
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jun 4, 2013
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jun 11, 2013
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jun 11, 2013
D-IL	William L. Enyart		Jun 11, 2013
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jun 18, 2013
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jun 20, 2013
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jun 25, 2013
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 25, 2013
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jul 10, 2013
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jul 10, 2013
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Jul 10, 2013
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jul 10, 2013
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jul 11, 2013
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jul 22, 2013
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Jul 22, 2013
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jul 30, 2013
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Aug 2, 2013
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Sep 10, 2013
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Sep 10, 2013
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 10, 2013
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Sep 11, 2013
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Sep 11, 2013
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Sep 11, 2013
R-CA	Paul Cook		Sep 11, 2013
R-NY	Peter T. King		Sep 11, 2013
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Sep 11, 2013
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Sep 12, 2013
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Sep 12, 2013
D-CA	Sam Farr		Sep 12, 2013
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Sep 17, 2013
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Sep 17, 2013
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Sep 17, 2013
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Sep 17, 2013
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Sep 17, 2013
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Sep 17, 2013
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Sep 18, 2013
D-GA	David Scott		Sep 18, 2013
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Sep 18, 2013
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Sep 18, 2013
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 18, 2013
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Sep 19, 2013
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 19, 2013
R-AK	Don Young		Sep 25, 2013
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Sep 25, 2013
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 25, 2013
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Sep 26, 2013
R-KS	Kevin Yoder		Sep 26, 2013
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 26, 2013
D-CA	Judy Chu		Sep 30, 2013
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Oct 7, 2013
D-MA	William R. Keating		Oct 7, 2013
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		Oct 10, 2013
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Oct 10, 2013
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Oct 15, 2013
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Oct 16, 2013
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 22, 2013
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Oct 28, 2013
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Oct 30, 2013
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Oct 30, 2013
D-TX	Al Green		Nov 12, 2013
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Nov 12, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel		Nov 18, 2013
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Nov 19, 2013
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Nov 19, 2013
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Nov 19, 2013
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Dec 2, 2013
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Dec 2, 2013
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Dec 2, 2013
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Dec 5, 2013
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Dec 11, 2013
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Dec 11, 2013
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Dec 16, 2013
D-CA	John Garamendi		Dec 19, 2013
D-NY	William L. Owens		Jan 8, 2014
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jan 13, 2014
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Jan 15, 2014
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jan 16, 2014
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Jan 27, 2014
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Jan 28, 2014
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Jan 31, 2014
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jan 31, 2014
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Feb 10, 2014
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Feb 21, 2014
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Mar 14, 2014
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Mar 24, 2014
D-IN	André Carson		Apr 1, 2014
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Apr 1, 2014
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Apr 28, 2014
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Apr 28, 2014
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		May 20, 2014
D-VT	Peter Welch		May 29, 2014
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 29, 2014
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jun 5, 2014
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jun 9, 2014
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jun 10, 2014
D-WI	Ron Kind		Jun 10, 2014
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Jun 17, 2014
R-TX	Pete Olson		Jun 17, 2014
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jun 25, 2014
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 23, 2014
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 23, 2014
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Jul 25, 2014
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Jul 28, 2014
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Jul 29, 2014
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jul 31, 2014
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Aug 1, 2014
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Sep 15, 2014
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Sep 15, 2014
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 15, 2014
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Sep 15, 2014
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Sep 16, 2014
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Sep 16, 2014
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Sep 16, 2014
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Sep 16, 2014
D-AZ	Ron Barber		Sep 16, 2014
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Sep 18, 2014
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Sep 18, 2014
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Sep 18, 2014
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 18, 2014
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Sep 18, 2014
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Sep 18, 2014
D-NC	David E. Price		Nov 17, 2014
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Nov 17, 2014
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Nov 17, 2014
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		Nov 17, 2014
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Nov 17, 2014
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Nov 17, 2014
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Nov 17, 2014
R-AL	Mike Rogers		Nov 17, 2014
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Nov 17, 2014
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Nov 17, 2014
D-GA	John Lewis		Dec 11, 2014

Committees 1

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 23, 2013
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 26, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 26, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 23, 2013Introduced in House
Apr 23, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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 H7252-H7253] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] By Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio: H.R. 3542. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution: The Congress shall have power to enact this legislation to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions as follows: H.R. 120: Ms. Edwards. H.R. 259: Mr. Kingston. H.R. 270: Mr. Ellison and Mr. Honda. H.R. 274: Mr. Keating. H.R. 351: Mr. McKeon. H.R. 543: Mr. Bishop of New York. H.R. 647: Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Collins of Georgia, and Ms. Jackson Lee. H.R. 669: Mrs. Christensen. H.R. 676: Ms. McCollum. H.R. 685: Mr. Vela, Mr. Messer, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, and Mrs. McMorris Rodgers. H.R. 713: Mr. Gibbs, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Honda. H.R. 715: Mr. McNerney and Mr. Perlmutter. H.R. 809: Mr. Fincher. H.R. 919: Mr. Ryan of Ohio. H.R. 997: Mr. Latham and Mrs. Miller of Michigan. H.R. 1020: Ms. Foxx. H.R. 1024: Mr. Barrow of Georgia. H.R. 1124: Mrs. Beatty. H.R. 1179: Mr. Cohen and Mrs. Christensen. H.R. 1199: Mr. Garcia. H.R. 1209: Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Graves of Georgia, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Mr. King of New York, and Ms. Fudge. H.R. 1248: Mr. Bachus. H.R. 1310: Mr. Lamborn. H.R. 1339: Mr. Lipinski and Mrs. Capito. H.R. 1428: Mr. Price of North Carolina. H.R. 1429: Mr. Bishop of New York. H.R. 1449: Mr. Ross, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mrs. Lummis, and Mr. Southerland. H.R. 1461: Mr. Hunter and Mr. Nugent. H.R. 1518: Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Crenshaw, and Mr. Bilirakis. H.R. 1563: Ms. Frankel of Florida, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and Mr. Graves of Missouri. H.R. 1601: Mr. Cartwright. H.R. 1616: Mr. Gibson. H.R. 1666: Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Lipinski, and Ms. Eshoo. H.R. 1717: Mr. David Scott of Georgia and Ms. Kuster. H.R. 1726: Ms. Frankel of Florida. H.R. 1761: Mr. Roe of Tennessee. H.R. 1779: Mr. Peterson. H.R. 1830: Ms. Esty. H.R. 1851: Ms. Kuster and Mr. Horsford. H.R. 1852: Mr. Ross, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Labrador, and Ms. Brownley of California. H.R. 1869: Mr. Wittman. H.R. 1878: Ms. Frankel of Florida. H.R. 1920: Mr. Rigell. H.R. 1985: Mr. Goodlatte. H.R. 1992: Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois and Mr. Sires. H.R. 2027: Mr. Cassidy. H.R. 2028: Mr. Tierney. H.R. 2144: Mr. Duncan of South Carolina. H.R. 2305: Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania. H.R. 2385: Mrs. Wagner. H.R. 2446: Mrs. Wagner. H.R. 2553: Ms. Moore, Ms. Schwartz, Ms. Titus, and Mr. George Miller of California. H.R. 2560: Mr. Rangel. H.R. 2607: Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Israel, and Mr. Pocan. H.R. 2619: Mr. Lowenthal. H.R. 2663: Mr. Ross. H.R. 2697: Mr. Bishop of New York, Ms. Kuster, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia. H.R. 2703: Mr. Doyle. H.R. 2725: Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Stutzman, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz. H.R. 2785: Mr. Renacci. H.R. 2791: Mr. Gibson and Mr. Huizenga of Michigan. H.R. 2818: Mr. Grijalva. H.R. 2945: Mr. Roskam. H.R. 3040: Mr. Gene Green of Texas. H.R. 3105: Mr. Goodlatte and Mr. Cotton. H.R. 3111: Mr. Johnson of Ohio. H.R. 3121: Mr. Renacci. H.R. 3125: Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Loebsack. H.R. 3135: Ms. McCollum. H.R. 3143: Mr. Israel. H.R. 3163: Mr. Moran. H.R. 3169: Mr. Burgess. H.R. 3189: Mr. Poe of Texas. H.R. 3206: Ms. Frankel of Florida. H.R. 3211: Mr. Fitzpatrick. H.R. 3240: Mr. Foster. H.R. 3297: Ms. Schakowsky. H.R. 3299: Mr. Ribble, Mr. Harris, Mr. Bentivolio, Mr. Boustany, and Mr. Roskam. H.R. 3303: Mr. Bilirakis. H.R. 3308: Mr. Pittenger. H.R. 3309: Mr. Johnson of Ohio and Mr. Larsen of Washington. H.R. 3322: Mr. Rangel. H.R. 3327: Mrs. Bustos. H.R. 3333: Mr. Pet[...]

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7253.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2800	Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act	Identical bill	Sep 11, 2014

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act

Subjects

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Apr 23, 2013Introduced in House

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