MEND Act
Latest action · Jul 28, 2014 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedJul 28, 2014
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Making the Education of Nurses Dependable for Schools Act or the MEND Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), for any reimbursements to providers under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for the costs of nursing and allied health education activities, to apply the regulation establishing the payment methodology for such reimbursements by treating a provider as meeting the requirements:
- for consideration as operating an approved nursing or allied health education program if the provider or a wholly owned subsidiary educational institution singly or collectively meets all such requirements; and
- for payment for certain nonprovider-operated programs at wholly owned subsidiary educational institutions if the provider meets all such requirements except that the transfer of a nursing or allied health education program to that wholly owned subsidiary educational institution to meet accreditation standards occurred after October 1, 2003.
Defines "wholly owned subsidiary educational institution" as one that: (1) is organized as a legal entity distinct from the provider, (2) has the provider as its sole owner or sole member, and (3) is organized in the same state in which the provider is organized or registered to do business.
Cosponsors 26
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 28, 2014 to Dec 3, 2014; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OH | Michael R. Turner | Original | Jul 28, 2014 |
| R-MO | Billy Long | Jul 30, 2014 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Jul 30, 2014 | |
| R-MO | Jason Smith | Aug 1, 2014 | |
| R-PA | Mike Kelly | Aug 1, 2014 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Sep 8, 2014 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Sep 8, 2014 | |
| R-NY | Richard L. Hanna | Sep 8, 2014 | |
| R-TX | Steve Stockman | Sep 8, 2014 | |
| R-WI | Reid J. Ribble | Sep 9, 2014 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Sep 10, 2014 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Sep 11, 2014 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | Sep 18, 2014 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Sep 18, 2014 | |
| R-KS | Lynn Jenkins | Sep 18, 2014 | |
| R-AR | Tim Griffin | Sep 18, 2014 | |
| R-IL | Adam Kinzinger | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| R-IL | John Shimkus | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| R-VA | Robert J. Wittman | Nov 14, 2014 | |
| R-VA | E. Scott Rigell | Nov 20, 2014 | |
| R-OH | Bob Gibbs | Dec 1, 2014 | |
| R-NC | George Holding | Dec 3, 2014 |
Committees 1
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 Jul 28, 2014 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2014Introduced in House
- Jul 28, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H6977.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To enable hospital-based nursing programs that are affiliated with a hospital to maintain payments under the Medicare program to hospitals for the costs of such programs.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- MEND Act
- Making the Education of Nurses Dependable for Schools Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2014Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
