HR 1608 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Lymphedema Treatment Act

Introduced Mar 25, 2015 Originated House Sponsor David G. Reichert R-WA

Latest action · Apr 7, 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 25, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Lymphedema Treatment Act

This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover certain lymphedema compression treatment items as durable medical equipment under Medicare. (Lymphedema is a condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling that is caused when the lymphatic system is damaged or blocked.)

Cosponsors 261

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 25, 2015 to Dec 13, 2016; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 25, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 25, 2015
R-NJ	Leonard Lance	Original	Mar 25, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith		Apr 14, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Apr 14, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 14, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Apr 14, 2015
R-FL	Daniel Webster		Apr 14, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price		Apr 14, 2015
R-TN	David P. Roe		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Apr 14, 2015
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Apr 14, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Apr 14, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Apr 14, 2015
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Apr 14, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis		Apr 14, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Apr 14, 2015
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Apr 14, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Apr 14, 2015
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Apr 14, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Apr 14, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Apr 14, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Apr 14, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Apr 14, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		Apr 14, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Apr 14, 2015
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Apr 14, 2015
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		Apr 15, 2015
R-MI	Dan Benishek		Apr 16, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Apr 17, 2015
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Apr 23, 2015
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Apr 23, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Apr 23, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Apr 23, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Apr 23, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Apr 23, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Apr 23, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Apr 23, 2015
R-FL	Ted S. Yoho		Apr 23, 2015
R-PA	Tom Marino		Apr 23, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 29, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Apr 29, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 29, 2015
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Apr 29, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Apr 29, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Apr 29, 2015
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Apr 29, 2015
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Apr 29, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 29, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Apr 29, 2015
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Apr 29, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Apr 29, 2015
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Apr 30, 2015
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		May 1, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		May 1, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson		May 1, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		May 1, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis		May 1, 2015
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		May 5, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 12, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		May 12, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		May 12, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		May 12, 2015
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		May 12, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 12, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 12, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins		May 20, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis		May 20, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		May 20, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		May 20, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		May 20, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		May 20, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		May 20, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 20, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		May 21, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		May 21, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		May 21, 2015
D-IN	André Carson		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 2, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jun 2, 2015
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jun 2, 2015
R-TX	Brian Babin		Jun 3, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 3, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jun 3, 2015
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jun 12, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jun 12, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jun 12, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Jun 12, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jun 15, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Jun 17, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jun 17, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Jun 17, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jun 17, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jun 17, 2015
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Jun 25, 2015
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jun 25, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Jun 25, 2015
R-LA	Garret Graves		Jul 9, 2015
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		Jul 9, 2015
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Jul 9, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Jul 9, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jul 9, 2015
R-IA	Rod Blum		Jul 9, 2015
R-FL	Ron DeSantis		Jul 9, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jul 13, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jul 14, 2015
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		Jul 23, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jul 23, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Jul 27, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Jul 27, 2015
R-AK	Don Young		Jul 28, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 28, 2015
D-GA	David Scott		Jul 29, 2015
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Jul 31, 2015
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Jul 31, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 31, 2015
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Aug 4, 2015
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 8, 2015
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Sep 8, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 8, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Sep 8, 2015
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Sep 8, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Sep 8, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Sep 11, 2015
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Sep 15, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Sep 16, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 16, 2015
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Sep 24, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Oct 6, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 6, 2015
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Oct 7, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Oct 8, 2015
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Oct 8, 2015
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Oct 8, 2015
R-NJ	Thomas MacArthur		Oct 16, 2015
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Oct 16, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Oct 20, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Oct 20, 2015
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Oct 20, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Oct 23, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Oct 23, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Oct 26, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Oct 26, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Oct 26, 2015
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Oct 26, 2015
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Oct 28, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Oct 29, 2015
R-NV	Cresent Hardy		Nov 2, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Nov 2, 2015
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Nov 4, 2015
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Nov 16, 2015
D-FL	Gwen Graham		Nov 16, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Nov 16, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Nov 16, 2015
R-IL	Mike Bost		Nov 16, 2015
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Nov 16, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Nov 16, 2015
R-TN	Diane Black		Dec 1, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Dec 1, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Dec 1, 2015
R-NC	Patrick T. McHenry		Dec 1, 2015
R-OR	Greg Walden		Dec 8, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai		Dec 8, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Dec 8, 2015
R-TX	Roger Williams		Dec 8, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Dec 15, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Dec 16, 2015
R-CA	Devin Nunes		Dec 17, 2015
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Dec 17, 2015
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Dec 17, 2015
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Dec 18, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Jan 11, 2016
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Jan 11, 2016
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jan 11, 2016
R-FL	David W. Jolly		Feb 1, 2016
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Feb 1, 2016
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Feb 1, 2016
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Feb 1, 2016
D-CA	Ami Bera		Feb 3, 2016
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Feb 3, 2016
R-NY	Tom Reed		Feb 3, 2016
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Feb 10, 2016
R-NC	Robert Pittenger		Feb 10, 2016
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Feb 29, 2016
R-MO	Jason Smith		Mar 7, 2016
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Mar 7, 2016
R-VA	Barbara Comstock		Mar 21, 2016
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 21, 2016
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Mar 21, 2016
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Mar 23, 2016
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Apr 11, 2016
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Apr 11, 2016
R-KS	Kevin Yoder		Apr 11, 2016
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Apr 11, 2016
R-TX	Sam Johnson		Apr 11, 2016
R-IA	Steve King		Apr 11, 2016
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent		Apr 19, 2016
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Apr 21, 2016
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Apr 21, 2016
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Apr 21, 2016
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Apr 21, 2016
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Apr 21, 2016
R-AZ	Matt Salmon		Apr 21, 2016
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Apr 21, 2016
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers		Apr 21, 2016
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Apr 21, 2016
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Apr 21, 2016
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Apr 25, 2016
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Apr 25, 2016
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Apr 27, 2016
R-VA	E. Scott Rigell		Apr 27, 2016
D-NY	Grace Meng		Apr 27, 2016
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Apr 27, 2016
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		Apr 27, 2016
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Apr 27, 2016
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		May 6, 2016
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		May 6, 2016
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		May 6, 2016
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		May 18, 2016
R-FL	Curt Clawson		May 18, 2016
R-TX	Lamar Smith		May 18, 2016
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		May 18, 2016
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jun 10, 2016
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Jun 10, 2016
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Jun 10, 2016
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Jun 10, 2016
R-TX	Louie Gohmert		Jun 10, 2016
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Jun 10, 2016
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jul 7, 2016
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Jul 7, 2016
R-AZ	Martha McSally		Jul 7, 2016
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		Jul 7, 2016
R-FL	Bill Posey		Jul 14, 2016
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Jul 14, 2016
R-IN	Todd Young		Jul 14, 2016
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Sep 20, 2016
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Sep 20, 2016
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Sep 20, 2016
R-MT	Ryan K. Zinke		Sep 20, 2016
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Sep 22, 2016
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Sep 22, 2016
D-NV	Dina Titus		Sep 28, 2016
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		Sep 28, 2016
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Sep 28, 2016
R-AR	J. French Hill		Nov 15, 2016
R-NY	John Katko		Nov 15, 2016
R-FL	John L. Mica		Nov 15, 2016
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Nov 15, 2016
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Nov 15, 2016
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Nov 29, 2016
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Nov 29, 2016
R-OK	Jim Bridenstine		Nov 29, 2016
R-MO	Sam Graves		Nov 29, 2016
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		Dec 5, 2016
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Dec 5, 2016
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Dec 13, 2016

Committees 2

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 Mar 25, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 27, 2015
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 25, 2015
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 7, 2015

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 7, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 27, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 25, 2015Introduced in House
Mar 25, 2015Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: ``The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution, specifically clause 1 (relating to providing for the general welfare of the United States) and clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in Congress), and Article IV, section 3, clause 2 (relating to the power of Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States).''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 50, March 25, 2015, page H2034.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 2373	Lymphedema Treatment Act	Identical bill	Dec 8, 2015

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 provide for Medicare coverage of certain lymphedema compression treatment items as items of durable medical equipment.
Short Titles as Introduced: Lymphedema Treatment Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 25, 2015Introduced in House

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