Hispanic Health Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1159
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol
Arts, Culture, Religion
Asthma
Bilingualism
Biological warfare
Boundaries
Cancer
Caribbean area
Case management
Chronically ill
Clinical trials
Coinsurance
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Drug abuse
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency communication systems
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Guardian and ward
Health insurance
Health services administration
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Indian medical care
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
International organization
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Mental health
Mentoring
Mexican Americans
Mexico
Migrant labor
Minorities
Minority education
Minority employment
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Obesity
Optometry
Paramedical personnel
Parent and child
Parents
Poor children
Pregnancy
Preventive medicine
Psychiatry
Public health
Puerto Rico
Rural health
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Southwest (U.S.)
Standards
Student loan funds
Suicide
Terminal care
Terrorism
Translating and interpreting
Tuberculosis
Vaccination
Vaccines
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Hispanic Health Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Social Security Act to provide incentives for States to grant title XIX (Medicaid) and title XXI (SCHIP) coverage to parents and pregnant women. Grants automatic enrollment of children in State child health assistance who are born to title XXI parents.
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to permit States and localities to provide certain health care benefits to aliens that current law prohibits States and localities from granting.
Amends Title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) to make children enrolled in SCHIP eligible for the pediatric vaccine distribution program.
Latina Adolescent Suicide Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program for the prevention of Latina adolescent suicides.
Patient Navigator, Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) the Director of the National Cancer Institute; and (3) the Director of the Indian Health Service to make grants for model programs to provide services for cancer and chronic diseases to individuals of health disparity populations.
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make grants to Hispanic-serving health professions schools to carry out programs to recruit Hispanic individuals to enroll in and graduate from the schools.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs of the Office of Minority Health. Directs the heads of certain agencies within the public health service to establish individual offices of minority health. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7158-7159)
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate