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Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues relating to the tax treatment of nonprofits, deductability of charitable donations, including governance of nonprofit organizations. Includes taxpayer deductibility and tobacco tax provisions in the President's FY14 Budget.

Contacted: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); White House Office; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; State, Dept of (DOS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL)

Health Issues HCR

Issues relating to health disparities, health care reform, childhood cancer, quality of life and palliative care, federal health care programs, genetic information, cancer, nutrition, and wellness, including the following legislation to be reintroduced from the 112th Congress; the Sun Act, the Family Act, Health Equity and Accountability Act, and the Patient Centered Quality of Care Act. Also, H.R.1339 & S. 641, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act; S. 621 and H.R. 1285, the Safe Prescribing Act;H.R. 1366, the Stop Oxy Abuse Act; and issues relating to tanning beds before the FDA, HHS and the House and Senate.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); White House Office; SENATE; State, Dept of (DOS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Bills named: H.R. 1366 (113th), S. 621 (113th), H.R. 1339 (113th), H.R. 1285 (113th), S. 641 (113th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Issues relating to implementation of changes to Medicare and Medicaid, pursuant to P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and tobacco cessation programs within Medicaid, including: S.868 and H.R.1683, the State Flexibility Act (MOE). Issues relating to inclusion of palliative care as a bundled service within CMS "value-based purchasing", general deficit reduction issues impacting Medicare & Medicaid, and H.R.1070, Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2013.

Contacted: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); White House Office; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); State, Dept of (DOS)

Bills named: H.R. 1683 (113th), S. 868 (113th), H.R. 1070 (113th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Federal budget and appropriations for cancer research and programs, including federal appropriations for NIH, NCI, CDC, FDA; the Prevention & Public Health Fund; the Affordable Care Act provisions; programs for breast and cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, tobacco regulation and cessation, patient navigators, patient quality of life, and international health. S.Con.Res. 8 FY14 Senate Budget Resolution, H.J.Res.117, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution Act; the President's FY14 Budget; and S.1284, the FY14 Labor,Health & Human Resources Appropriations Act.

Contacted: Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); White House Office; SENATE; State, Dept of (DOS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: S. 1284 (113th), H.J.Res. 117 (113th), S.Con.Res. 8 (113th)

Tobacco TOB

Issues relating to smoking cessation, tobacco sales to minors, tobacco taxes, product regulation, and smokefree environments, including: (1) implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P.L. 111-31): (2) cessation and prevention programs authorized as part of P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010; (3) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). S. 39, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act,H.R. 792 & S. 772, cigar exemption from FDA regulations; S. 194, Tobacco Tax Equity Act and tobacco tax proposals contained in the President's FY14 Budget. Issues relating to tobacco and trade, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Contacted: White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); State, Dept of (DOS); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 792 (113th), S. 194 (113th), S. 39 (113th), S. 772 (113th)