Listed below are pieces of Federal legislation pertaining to cancer and its prevention that are under consideration in the US Congress. Access the Web links provided for more information.
Bill Number - H. R. 5187
Date Introduced - 7/23/2002
Summary - The Patient Navigator, Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2002 is a bill to authorize the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Cancer Institute to make grants for model programs to provide to individuals of health disparity populations prevention, early detection, treatment and appropriate follow-up care services for cancer and chronic diseases, and to make grants regarding patient navigators to assist individuals of health disparity populations in receiving such services.
Status - Pending:
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Bill Number - H. Con. Res. 309
Date Introduced - 7/23/2002
Summary - Recognizing the Importance of Good Cervical Health. A resolution recognizing the importance of good cervical health and of detecting cervical cancer during its earliest stages.
Status - Pending: It passed the House, and was subsequently delivered to the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Bill Number - HR 4963
Date Introduced - 6/19/2002
Summary - Provides for the expansion and coordination of activities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to research and programs on cancer survivorship.
Status - Pending:
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Bill Number - H. R. 4875
Date Introduced - 6/5/2002
Summary - The Cancer and Terminal Illness Patient Health Care Act of 2002 is a bill that will amend the Internal Code of 1986 to waive the employee portion of Social Security taxes imposed on individuals who have been diagnosed as having cancer or a terminal disease.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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Bill Number - S 2558
Date Introduced - 5/23/2002
Summary - Amends the Public Service Act to provide for the collection of data on benign brain-related tumors through the National Program of Cancer Registries.
Status - Pending:
Presented to the President
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Bill Number - H. Con. Res. 385
Date Introduced - 4/23/2002
Summary - Supporting Research on Certain Tests to Screen for Ovarian Cancer. Concurrent Resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Secretary of HHS should conduct or support research on certain tests to screen for ovarian cancer, and the Federal health care programs and group and individual health plans should cover the tests if they are demonstrated to be effective.
Status - Pending: The resolution was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - H. R. 3910
Date Introduced - 3/7/2002
Summary - Protect Our Women from Ovarian Cancer Act of 2002. A bill to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage under the Medicare program for certain tests to screen for ovarian cancer upon certification by the Director of the National Institutes of Health that such tests are effective. This measure directs the Secretary of DHHS, acting through the Director of NIH, to conduct or support research on the effectiveness of screening for ovarian cancer using new proteomics techniques, as well as the effectiveness of using this technique in conjunction with other screening techniques to identify ovarian cancer. The Secretary is required to submit a report to Congress on this research, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of these screening approaches.
Status - Pending
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Bill Number - H. R. 3989
Date Introduced - 3/18/2002
Summary - Better Screening Test for Women Act. A bill to authorize additional appropriations to the NIH for research on the early detection of and the reduction of mortality rates attributed to breast cancer
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Bill Number - S 1976
Date Introduced - 2/28/2002
Summary - Relates to the National Cancer Act of 2002. Provides for a comprehensive federal effort relating to treatments for and the prevention of cancer. Appropriates funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for breast and colorectal cancer screening.
Status - Pending: To Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
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Bill Number - S. 1931/H. R. 3710
Date Introduced - 2/11/2002
Summary - The Colon Cancer Screen for Life Act of 2002 would amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve patient access to, and utilization of, the colorectal cancer screening benefit under the Medicare Program.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Finance. Introduced in the House.
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Bill Number - H. R. 3336
Date Introduced -11/16/2001
Summary - Cancer Testing, Education, Screening, and Treatment Act. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to provide screening and treatment for cancer to minority and other populations served by health centers under Section 330 of such Act.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - HR 2629
Date Introduced - 7/25/2001
Summary - A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide research, information, and education with respect to blood cancer.
Status - Pending: Introduced
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Bill Number - S 1094
Date Introduced - 6/22/2001
Summary - A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research, information, and education with respect to blood cancer.
Status - Pending: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Bill Number - HR 1809
Date Introduced - 5/10/2001
Summary - Requires that group and individual health plans provide coverage and group health plans provide coverage of cancer screening tests, including mammograms, clinical breast examinations, Pap tests and pelvic examinations, colorectal screening procedures, and prostate screening tests, at specified intervals and through specified procedures for certain age groups in appropriate genders.
Status - Pending: Referred to the following Committees: Government Reform, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - S 868
Date Introduced - 5/10/2001
Summary - Requires that group and individual health plans provide coverage for cancer screening.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Bill Number - HR 1723
Date Introduced - 5/03/2001
Summary - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health
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Bill Number - S 830
Date Introduced - 5/03/2001
Summary - A bill to amend the Public Health Services Act to authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science to make grants for the development and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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Bill Number - H. R. 1354
Date Introduced - 4/3/2001
Summary - Assure Access to Mammography Act of 2001. A bill providing enhanced reimbursement for mammography services under the Medicare program.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - S. 710
Date Introduced - 4/5/2001
Summary - A bill to require coverage for colorectal cancer screenings to ensure that all health insurance covers screening procedures that can discover colorectal cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Bill Number - HR 1520
Date Introduced -4/4/2001
Summary - A bill to require coverage for colorectal cancer screenings for group health plans and group and individual health insurance providers. The bill was designed to ensure that all health insurance covers screening procedures that can discover colorectal cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce
http://www3.cancer.gov/legis/feb02/healthcare.html#26
Bill Number - H. R. 1202
Date Introduced - 3/22/2001
Summary - The Providing Annual Pap Tests to Save Women's Lives Act of 2001. A bill to provide coverage of annual screening Pap smears under Medicare.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - HR 1144
Date Introduced - 3/21/2001
Summary - A bill to provide for an increase in the Federal investment in research on cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and asthma by $2,000,000,000 for the fiscal year 2002, and to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal investment in such research should further be increased for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2006.
Status - Pending: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Bill Number - S. 548
Date Introduced - 3/15/2001
Summary - Assure Access to Mammography Act of 2001. A bill to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide enhanced reimbursement for, and expanded capacity to, mammography services under the Medicare program.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Bill Number - H. R. 1064
Date Introduced - 3/15/2001
Summary - Screening Mammography Act of 2001. A bill to require that group and individual health insurance plans provide coverage for annual screening mammography if the plans included coverage for diagnostic mammography, and to provide coverage of annual screening mammography under the Medicaid program.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - HR 758
Date Introduced - 2/27/2001
Summary - A bill to provide for substantial reductions in the price of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Status - Pending: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means
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Bill Number - HR 1624
Date Introduced - 2/27/2001
Summary - The Access to Cancer Therapies Act will build on current Medicare policy by ensuring coverage of all anti-cancer drugs, whether oral or injectable, for Medicare beneficiaries under part B. The Act will provide beneficiaries with access to innovative new therapies that are less toxic amore convenient, more effective and more cost-effective than currently covered treatment options.
Status - Pending: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means
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Bill Number - S 710
Date Introduced - 2/27/2001
Summary - This legislation would require group health insurance plans to cover colorectal cancer screening for plan participants age 50 and older, and for plan participants under age 50 who are at high risk for colorectal cancer or exhibit symptoms.
Status - Pending
http://www.preventcancer.org/colorectal/legislation/addlegis.cfm
Bill Number - S. 261
Date Introduced - 2/6//2001
Summary - Consumer Involvement in Breast Cancer Research Act. This bill provides for the increased involvement of advocates in decision making at the National Cancer Institute, specifically regarding breast cancer.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
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Bill Number - H. R. 326
Date Introduced - 1/31/2001
Summary - Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 2001. A bill to provide for ovarian cancer research programs. The bill would amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations specifically for ovarian cancer research in the amount of $150,000,000 in fiscal year 2002, and such sums as may be necessary each year thereafter through 2004. The bill also contains specific instructions to the NCI for how the appropriation must be used, and a directive to include individual(s) at high risk for developing ovarian cancer in the membership of the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Bill Number - H. R. 292
Date Introduced - 1/30/2001
Summary - The Providing Annual Screening Mammography for Women 40 and Older resolution would require that if group and individual health insurance plans provide coverage of diagnostic mammography for women 40 years or older, then they must also cover annual screening mammography.
Status - Pending: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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