1st Quarter - Report

AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION for AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$254,621
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

6 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Defense DEF

S. 2705: Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008: All provisions related to increasing the number of nurses within the Armed Forces through assistance for service as nurse faculty or education as nurses.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
ROSE GONZALEZ —
ERIN HENNESSEY MCKEON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE

Bills named: S. 2705 (110th)

Health Issues HCR

H.R. 2915: National Health Services Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007: Provisions related to set asides for specific health care practitioners. Contact HHS Secretary re nomination to Advisory Committee on Health Promotions and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020. S. 2064: Nurse Training and Retention Act of 2007 H.R. 1424: Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007: All provisions related to mental health parity. H.R. 677: Nursing School Capacity Act of 2007: All provisions related to nursing education. H.R. 772/S. 446: Nursing Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2007: All provisions related to grants to nursing schools to increase the number of nursing faculty and students. S. 558: Mental Health Parity Act of 2007: All provisions related to group health plans related to mental health benefits. S. 2795: The Small Business Health Options Program: All provisions relating to the creation of new health insurance options for small businesses and the unemployed. S. 400/H.R. 2851: Michelle's Law: All provisions ensuring that dependent students who take a medically necessary leave of absence do not lose health insurance coverage. H.R. 2994: The National Pain Care Policy Act of 2007: All provisions related to pain management.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
RACHEL CONANT —
ROSE GONZALEZ —
CARLOS JACKSON —
ERIN HENNESSEY MCKEON —

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: S. 558 (110th), H.R. 2915 (110th), H.R. 2994 (110th), H.R. 2851 (110th), S. 2064 (110th), S. 446 (110th), S. 400 (110th), H.R. 772 (110th), H.R. 677 (110th), S. 2795 (110th), H.R. 1424 (110th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

H.R. 2066/S. 59: Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurse and Physicians Assistant Access Act: All provisions related to Medicaid coverage of advanced practice registered nurses. H.R. 5613: Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008: All provisions related to moratorium of Medicaid regulations. S. 1842/H.R. 2122: The Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007. All provisions related to mandatory overtime. S. 1052: The Healthy Children and Families Act: All provisions encouraging states to add evidence-based nurse home visitation programs to their Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program services. S. 73/H.R. 4138: The Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007. All provisions relating to nurse staffing. H.R. 1663: Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act. All provisions related to mental health parity in Medicare. S. 1678: Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act of 2007: All provisions related to payment for home health care services.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
EILEEN CARLSON —
RACHEL CONANT —
ROSE GONZALEZ —
CARLOS JACKSON —
ERIN HENNESSEY MCKEON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 2122 (110th), S. 73 (110th), H.R. 1663 (110th), S. 1052 (110th), S. 59 (110th), S. 1678 (110th), S. 1842 (110th), H.R. 4138 (110th), H.R. 5613 (110th), H.R. 2066 (110th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Support of FY 2009 funding increases for SAMHSA . Support of FY 2009 funding increases for The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fiscal Year 2009 - Budget - Function 550 support for funding increases Fiscal Year 2009 - Support for increased funding for Title VIII Programs in LHHS Appropriations.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
RACHEL CONANT —
ROSE GONZALEZ —
CARLOS JACKSON —
ERIN HENNESSEY MCKEON —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Immigration IMM

All provisions related to immigration of Foreign Educated Nurses.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
ROSE GONZALEZ —
ERIN HENNESSEY MCKEON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Education EDU

S. 1642/H.R. 4137: The Higher Education Reauthorization Act: All provisions related to nursing.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MICHELLE ARTZ —
ROSE GONZALEZ —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: H.R. 4137 (110th), S. 1642 (110th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.