PROSTATE Act
Latest action · Mar 11, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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 11, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access, and Treatment Effectiveness Act of 2013 or PROSTATE Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the Interagency Prostate Cancer Coordination and Education Task Force, with duties to include: (1) developing a summary of advances in federal prostate cancer research and compile a list of best practices that warrant broader adoption in health care programs, (2) considering establishing guidance to enable physicians to allow screening of men over age 74, (3) coordinating information on federal research and health care program activities relating to prostate cancer, and (4) submitting recommendations regarding federal research and health care programs.
Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to coordinate and intensify prostate cancer research, including by developing advances in diagnostic and prognostic methods and tests, better understanding of the etiology of the disease, and establishment of clinical registries for prostate cancer and the award of research grants.
Establishes in the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a Prostate Cancer Scientific Advisory Board to be responsible for accelerating real-time sharing of the latest research data and accelerating movement of new medicines to patients.
Directs the Secretary of VA, the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish four-year telehealth pilot projects to analyze the clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness associated with telehealth services in a variety of geographic areas that contain high proportions of medically underserved populations as well as those in rural areas.
Requires the Secretary of VA to develop a national education campaign for prostate cancer.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 11, 2013 to Apr 15, 2013, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MO | Roy Blunt | Original | Mar 11, 2013 |
| R-ID | Mike Crapo | Mar 21, 2013 | |
| R-AL | Jeff Sessions | Apr 15, 2013 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 11, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Mar 11, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Advisory bodies
- Cancer
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Health
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Military medicine
- Minority health
- Research administration and funding
- Sex and reproductive health
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 11, 2013Introduced in Senate
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