Fair Care Act of 2020
Latest action · Oct 5, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedOct 5, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fair Care Act of 2020
This bill addresses the health care system, including Medicare, Medicaid, the private health insurance market, and the prescription drug approval process. The bill also revises tax provisions related to certain health care costs and establishes requirements for lawsuits involving health care provided, at least in part, through a federal program or with federal funds.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 5, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Oct 5, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 28
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 350 | Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019 | Related bill | Feb 6, 2019 |
| S 657 | A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to establish requirements with respect to prescription drug benefits. | Related bill | Mar 5, 2019 |
| S 659 | Biologic Patent Transparency Act | Related bill | Mar 5, 2019 |
| HR 803 | Improving Transparency and Accuracy in Medicare Part D Spending Act | Related bill | Mar 1, 2019 |
| HR 1035 | Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act | Related bill | Feb 7, 2019 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Advisory bodies
- Aging
- Alternative treatments
- Appropriations
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Biological and life sciences
- Business records
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child health
- Child safety and welfare
- Civil actions and liability
- Competition and antitrust
- Congressional oversight
- Consumer affairs
- Contracts and agency
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Dental care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Evidence and witnesses
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Genetics
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Home and outpatient care
- Hospital care
- Immunology and vaccination
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax rates
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Inflation and prices
- Insurance industry and regulation
- Intellectual property
- Intergovernmental relations
- Judicial review and appeals
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Marketing and advertising
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Minority health
- Prescription drugs
- Public contracts and procurement
- Research administration and funding
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Right of privacy
- Rural conditions and development
- Sales and excise taxes
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- State and local taxation
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Telephone and wireless communication
- User charges and fees
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 5, 2020Introduced in Senate
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.