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.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Oct 5, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 5, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Oct 5, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S7402 | Mike Braun R-IN | Dec 10, 2020 |
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.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46741 | Drug Pricing and Intellectual Property: The Legislative Landscape for the 117th Congress | Report | Mar 31, 2021 |
Related bills 28
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to address the high costs of health care services, prescription drugs, and health insurance coverage in the United States, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Fair Care Act of 2020
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
