Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017
Latest action · Jan 25, 2017 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.
- IntroducedJan 3, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicare and state Medicaid programs to provide routine HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening services. State Medicaid programs must provide these services without cost sharing for the screened individual.
The bill amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require group health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for routine HIV/AIDS and STI screening under no less favorable terms than other routine health screenings. The bill prohibits activities to avoid these requirements.
State Medicaid programs may receive enhanced federal matching funds for covering individuals with HIV/AIDS whose income and resources do not exceed the limits for disabled individuals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must track STI screening trends and other information regarding people with disabilities and women who have sex with women.
The CDC must work with others to: (1) make sex education materials accessible to the deaf and hearing loss community and to people with intellectual disabilities, (2) track access to women's health services for women with severe mobility impairments, (3) increase the number of people in public health careers who are deaf or living with hearing loss, (4) ensure that cervical cancer screening guidelines state that women who have sex with women should be subject to the same screening as women who have sex with men, and (5) improve information collection concerning STIs in transgender communities.Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 11, 2017.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Jan 11, 2017 |
Committees 4
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 Jan 3, 2017 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jan 25, 2017 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 3, 2017 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 3, 2017 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jan 12, 2017 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 3, 2017 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 25, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 12, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 3, 2017Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2017Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 1, January 3, 2017, page H51.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 115-755 | PREVENTING ABUSE IN OLYMPIC AND AMATEUR ATHLETICS: ENSURING A SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR ATHLETES173 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Jun 5, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for an evidence-based strategy for voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and other common sexually transmitted infections, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Cancer
- Crime victims
- Criminal justice information and records
- Disability and paralysis
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
- HIV/AIDS
- Medicaid
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Sex offenses
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 3, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
