Compassionate Care Act
Latest action · Dec 2, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedDec 2, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Compassionate Care Act
This bill establishes and expands various programs and activities within the Department of Health and Human Services that support and promote end-of-life care and advance care planning. It also permanently authorizes a physician or nurse practitioner to recertify via telehealth a patient's eligibility for Medicare hospice benefits.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 2, 2020Introduced in Senate
- Dec 2, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Congressional oversight
- Education programs funding
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care quality
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medical education
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 2, 2020Introduced in Senate
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