To repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund.
Latest action · Feb 27, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 25, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the establishment of, and appropriation of funds to, the Prevention and Public Health Fund (a fund to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs). Rescinds any unobligated balances appropriated to the Fund.
Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to post a notice of the rescission and the amounts of funds rescinded on the public HHS website within 10 days of enactment of this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 25, 2015Introduced in House
- Feb 25, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
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- Feb 25, 2015Introduced in House
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