Family Caregiver Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4095
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2004-03-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caregivers
Disabled
Domestic partners
Families
Family leave
Home care services
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Nursing
Paramedical personnel
Physical therapy
Sick leave
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: 
Family Caregiver Security Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the use of qualified family caregivers in the provision of home health aide services under Medicare.
 
Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to: (1) include nurse practitioners as health care providers; (2) extend benefits to domestic or civil partners; and (3) extend from 12 to 24 workweeks the period of family or medical leave for spouses employed by the same employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2004-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Introduced in House