HR 1342 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015

Introduced Mar 6, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Greg Walden R-OR

Latest action · Mar 18, 2015 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 6, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise conditions of and limitations on payment for home health care services.

Allows payment for home health services to Medicare beneficiaries by: (1) a nurse practitioner, (2) a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician in accordance with state law, (3) a certified nurse-midwife, or (4) a physician assistant under a physician's supervision.

Cosponsors 206

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2015 to Dec 7, 2016; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-OH	Bill Johnson	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-WV	David B. McKinley	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-MS	Gregg Harper	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-PA	Mike Kelly	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Mar 6, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-IN	Todd Young	Original	Mar 6, 2015
R-NE	Adrian Smith		Mar 19, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Mar 19, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Mar 19, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 19, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Mar 19, 2015
R-AK	Don Young		Mar 19, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Mar 19, 2015
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Mar 19, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Mar 19, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Mar 19, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Mar 19, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Mar 19, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Mar 26, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 26, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Mar 26, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Mar 26, 2015
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Mar 26, 2015
R-VA	Barbara Comstock		Apr 13, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Apr 13, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Apr 13, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Apr 13, 2015
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Apr 13, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Apr 13, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Apr 13, 2015
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Apr 13, 2015
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes		Apr 13, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Apr 13, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai		Apr 13, 2015
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Apr 13, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Apr 13, 2015
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Apr 13, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Apr 13, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Apr 21, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Apr 21, 2015
R-NY	Chris Collins		Apr 21, 2015
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis		Apr 21, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price		Apr 21, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Apr 21, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 21, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Apr 21, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Apr 21, 2015
R-KS	Mike Pompeo		Apr 21, 2015
R-TX	Pete Olson		Apr 21, 2015
R-MO	Sam Graves		Apr 21, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Apr 23, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Apr 23, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Apr 23, 2015
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Apr 23, 2015
R-IL	Randy Hultgren		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Apr 23, 2015
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Apr 23, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith		Apr 28, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 28, 2015
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Apr 28, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Apr 28, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Apr 28, 2015
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Apr 28, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Apr 28, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Apr 28, 2015
R-MT	Ryan K. Zinke		Apr 28, 2015
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Apr 28, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Apr 28, 2015
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Apr 28, 2015
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Apr 28, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Apr 28, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		May 5, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		May 5, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		May 5, 2015
R-OH	James B. Renacci		May 5, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis		May 5, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 5, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		May 14, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 14, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 14, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck		May 14, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		May 14, 2015
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		May 14, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 14, 2015
D-CT	James A. Himes		May 14, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		May 14, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		May 14, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		May 21, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis		May 21, 2015
R-NY	John Katko		May 21, 2015
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Jun 2, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jun 8, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jun 8, 2015
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Jun 8, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 15, 2015
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jun 23, 2015
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Jun 24, 2015
D-IN	André Carson		Jul 7, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Jul 7, 2015
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Jul 7, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jul 7, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Jul 7, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jul 7, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jul 13, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jul 13, 2015
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Jul 13, 2015
R-TN	Diane Black		Jul 13, 2015
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Jul 13, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 13, 2015
R-PA	Scott Perry		Jul 13, 2015
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Jul 13, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jul 21, 2015
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Jul 21, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jul 21, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jul 27, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jul 27, 2015
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Jul 29, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jul 29, 2015
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Jul 29, 2015
R-NH	Frank C. Guinta		Jul 29, 2015
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jul 29, 2015
R-IN	Luke Messer		Jul 31, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Sep 18, 2015
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Sep 18, 2015
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Sep 18, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera		Oct 9, 2015
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Oct 9, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Oct 9, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Oct 9, 2015
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Oct 9, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Oct 9, 2015
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Oct 9, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson		Oct 23, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Oct 29, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Oct 29, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Oct 29, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Oct 29, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Oct 29, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Nov 19, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Nov 19, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Nov 19, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Nov 19, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Nov 19, 2015
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Nov 19, 2015
R-MS	Trent Kelly		Nov 19, 2015
R-VA	E. Scott Rigell		Dec 3, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Dec 11, 2015
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Dec 11, 2015
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Dec 11, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Dec 11, 2015
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Dec 11, 2015
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Dec 11, 2015
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		Dec 11, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Dec 11, 2015
D-FL	Gwen Graham		Jan 6, 2016
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jan 6, 2016
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jan 6, 2016
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Jan 6, 2016
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Jan 28, 2016
R-IA	Rod Blum		Feb 12, 2016
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Feb 12, 2016
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Mar 3, 2016
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Mar 17, 2016
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Apr 15, 2016
R-MO	Jason Smith		Apr 15, 2016
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Apr 15, 2016
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Apr 15, 2016
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Apr 15, 2016
R-MO	Billy Long		Apr 29, 2016
R-NV	Cresent Hardy		Apr 29, 2016
D-NY	Grace Meng		Apr 29, 2016
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Apr 29, 2016
D-GA	John Lewis		Apr 29, 2016
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Apr 29, 2016
D-CA	Judy Chu		May 13, 2016
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		May 23, 2016
R-PA	Tim Murphy		May 23, 2016
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers		May 26, 2016
R-VA	Dave Brat		Jun 16, 2016
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Jun 16, 2016
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jun 16, 2016
R-AL	Mo Brooks		Jun 16, 2016
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jun 16, 2016
R-VA	Robert Hurt		Jun 16, 2016
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Jun 16, 2016
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Jul 11, 2016
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Sep 6, 2016
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Sep 6, 2016
R-ME	Bruce Poliquin		Sep 20, 2016
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Sep 20, 2016
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen		Dec 7, 2016
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Dec 7, 2016

Committees 2

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 Mar 6, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 18, 2015
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 13, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 18, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 13, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 6, 2015Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2015Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 3

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 H2195	Frank C. Guinta R-NH	May 10, 2016
Extensions	Debate and remarks E356	Greg Walden R-OR	Mar 22, 2016
House	Debate and remarks H7199	Frank C. Guinta R-NH	Oct 27, 2015

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 H1623-H1624] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] By Mr. WALDEN: H.R. 1342. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: 1) Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States 2) Article 1, Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives ____________________

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 38, March 6, 2015, page H1624.

Related bills 2

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 578	Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015	Identical bill	Feb 26, 2015
S 3435	Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2016	Related bill	Sep 28, 2016

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure more timely access to home health services for Medicare beneficiaries under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 6, 2015Introduced in House

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