HR 1148 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

FAST Act of 2017

Introduced Feb 16, 2017 Originated House Sponsor H. Morgan Griffith R-VA

Latest action · Dec 6, 2017 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 328.

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.

IntroducedFeb 16, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017 or the FAST Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill specifies that, under Medicare, telehealth services include telehealth-eligible stroke services provided to an individual soon after the onset of acute-stroke symptoms. Certain originating-site requirements applicable to telehealth services under Medicare shall not apply with respect to such stroke services.

Cosponsors 177

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 16, 2017 to Dec 6, 2017; 10 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-OH	Bill Johnson	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-TX	Brian Babin	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-NY	Chris Collins	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-TN	David P. Roe	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis	Original	Feb 16, 2017
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-OH	Michael R. Turner	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-LA	Ralph Lee Abraham	Original	Feb 16, 2017
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	Feb 16, 2017
R-TX	Bill Flores		Feb 21, 2017
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Feb 21, 2017
R-GA	Tom Graves		Feb 21, 2017
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Feb 27, 2017
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Feb 27, 2017
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Feb 27, 2017
R-MD	Andy Harris		Mar 1, 2017
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 1, 2017
R-AZ	Martha McSally		Mar 1, 2017
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Mar 1, 2017
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney		Mar 2, 2017
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Mar 2, 2017
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Mar 2, 2017
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Mar 2, 2017
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Mar 2, 2017
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Mar 2, 2017
R-KY	Andy Barr		Mar 7, 2017
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Mar 7, 2017
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Mar 7, 2017
D-CO	Jared Polis		Mar 7, 2017
R-OK	Tom Cole		Mar 7, 2017
D-NV	Jacky Rosen		Mar 8, 2017
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Mar 8, 2017
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Mar 8, 2017
R-GA	Barry Loudermilk		Mar 9, 2017
R-AZ	David Schweikert		Mar 10, 2017
D-GA	David Scott		Mar 10, 2017
R-CA	Devin Nunes		Mar 10, 2017
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Mar 13, 2017
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Mar 13, 2017
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Mar 15, 2017
R-MO	Billy Long		Mar 17, 2017
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Mar 17, 2017
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 20, 2017
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		Mar 22, 2017
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Mar 28, 2017
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Mar 29, 2017
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Mar 29, 2017
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Mar 29, 2017
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Mar 29, 2017
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Mar 30, 2017
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Mar 30, 2017
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Apr 3, 2017
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Apr 3, 2017
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Apr 4, 2017
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Apr 4, 2017
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Apr 5, 2017
R-MI	Fred Upton		Apr 5, 2017
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Apr 24, 2017
D-WA	Denny Heck		Apr 24, 2017
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Apr 24, 2017
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Apr 24, 2017
D-CA	Jim Costa		Apr 24, 2017
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Apr 24, 2017
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Apr 24, 2017
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Apr 24, 2017
D-VT	Peter Welch		Apr 24, 2017
D-WI	Ron Kind		Apr 24, 2017
D-CA	Ami Bera		Apr 25, 2017
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Apr 25, 2017
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 25, 2017
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Apr 25, 2017
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Apr 25, 2017
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Apr 26, 2017
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		May 1, 2017
R-FL	Neal P. Dunn		May 1, 2017
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		May 1, 2017
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		May 16, 2017
R-WV	David B. McKinley		May 16, 2017
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		May 16, 2017
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		May 16, 2017
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		May 16, 2017
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		May 16, 2017
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		May 17, 2017
R-KS	Roger Marshall		May 17, 2017
D-FL	Darren Soto		May 22, 2017
D-CA	Mark Takano		May 22, 2017
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jun 6, 2017
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jun 6, 2017
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Jun 6, 2017
R-ME	Bruce Poliquin		Jun 12, 2017
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Jun 12, 2017
R-SC	Tom Rice		Jun 13, 2017
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jun 16, 2017
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Jun 20, 2017
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Jun 21, 2017
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jun 21, 2017
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Jun 22, 2017
R-CA	Stephen Knight		Jun 22, 2017
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jun 26, 2017
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jun 26, 2017
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 27, 2017
R-IA	David Young		Jun 27, 2017
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Jun 27, 2017
R-GA	Jody B. Hice		Jun 27, 2017
R-CA	Paul Cook		Jun 27, 2017
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Jun 28, 2017
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Jul 6, 2017
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Jul 6, 2017
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jul 6, 2017
R-IA	Steve King		Jul 6, 2017
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Jul 12, 2017
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 12, 2017
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 12, 2017
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Jul 12, 2017
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jul 12, 2017
D-IA	David Loebsack		Jul 13, 2017
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jul 13, 2017
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jul 14, 2017
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jul 14, 2017
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		Jul 17, 2017
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Jul 17, 2017
R-GA	A. Drew Ferguson IV		Jul 18, 2017
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Jul 19, 2017
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 19, 2017
R-TX	Blake Farenthold		Jul 20, 2017
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Jul 20, 2017
R-TX	Joe Barton		Jul 20, 2017
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		Jul 24, 2017
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jul 24, 2017
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 5, 2017
R-FL	Bill Posey		Sep 5, 2017
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Sep 5, 2017
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Sep 5, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Sep 5, 2017
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Sep 5, 2017
R-SC	Ralph Norman		Sep 5, 2017
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Sep 5, 2017
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Sep 5, 2017
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Sep 7, 2017
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Sep 7, 2017
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Sep 7, 2017
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Sep 7, 2017
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Sep 11, 2017
R-IL	John Shimkus		Sep 11, 2017
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Sep 11, 2017
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Sep 12, 2017
R-NY	Tom Reed		Sep 12, 2017
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Sep 14, 2017
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Sep 14, 2017
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Sep 25, 2017
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 25, 2017
R-IN	Trey Hollingsworth		Sep 26, 2017
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Sep 27, 2017
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Oct 2, 2017
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Oct 3, 2017
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Oct 4, 2017
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Oct 4, 2017
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Oct 12, 2017
R-AK	Don Young		Oct 12, 2017
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Oct 23, 2017
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Oct 25, 2017
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Nov 6, 2017
R-MN	Jason Lewis		Nov 13, 2017
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Nov 17, 2017
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Nov 17, 2017
R-IA	Rod Blum		Nov 17, 2017
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Nov 28, 2017
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Nov 29, 2017
R-NY	John Katko		Nov 29, 2017
D-GA	John Lewis		Nov 29, 2017
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Dec 5, 2017
R-MO	Jason Smith		Dec 5, 2017
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Dec 5, 2017
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Dec 5, 2017
R-IL	Darin LaHood		Dec 6, 2017
D-CT	John B. Larson		Dec 6, 2017

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 Feb 16, 2017Markup Oct 4, 2017Reported Dec 6, 2017
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Feb 17, 2017Markup Sep 13, 2017Reported Sep 13, 2017
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Feb 16, 2017Discharged Dec 6, 2017
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 1, 2017

Actions 11

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 6, 2017Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 115-444, Part I.
Dec 6, 2017Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Dec 6, 2017Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 328.
Oct 4, 2017Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Oct 4, 2017Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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In the Congressional Record 1

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 H4394	Roger Marshall R-KS	May 22, 2017

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.

Committee report

H. Rept. 115-444

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Oct 23, 2017H.R. 1148, Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on October 4, 2017

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 28, February 16, 2017, page H1304.

Printed hearings 3

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 115-55	MODERNIZING FDA'S REGULATION OF OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS156 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Sep 13, 2017
Serial No. 115-47	EXAMINING BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE MEDICARE PROGRAM214 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jul 20, 2017
S. Hrg. 115-280	THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND AND RURAL BROADBAND INVESTMENT215 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Jun 20, 2017

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 3003	No Sanctuary for Criminals Act	Related bill	Jul 10, 2017

Titles 5

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 expand access to telehealth-eligible stroke services under the Medicare program.
Short Titles as Introduced: FAST Act of 2017; Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017
Short Titles as Reported to House: FAST Act of 2017; Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act of 2017

Subjects

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

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 6, 2017Reported in House
Feb 16, 2017Introduced in House

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