Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 2023
Latest action · Dec 7, 2023 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
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 7, 2023
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
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 | Reported as an original measure Dec 7, 2023 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 7, 2023Introduced in Senate
- Dec 7, 2023Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Wyden. With written report No. 118-121.
- Dec 7, 2023Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
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
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. 118-804 | RURAL HEALTH CARE: SUPPORTING LIVES AND IMPROVING COMMUNITIES240 pages | Finance Committee | May 16, 2024 |
Related bills 12
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
- An original bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to expand the mental health care workforce and services, reduce prescription drug costs, and extend certain expiring provisions under Medicare and Medicaid, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
- Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Aging
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Contracts and agency
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Freedom of information
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- 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
- Intergovernmental relations
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Prescription drugs
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Rural conditions and development
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- State and local government operations
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 7, 2023Reported to 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.
