Katrina Health Access, Recovery, and Empowerment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4858
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Alabama
Building construction
Capital budgets
Capital investments
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Child health
Clinics
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Disabled
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Floods
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health care fraud
Health facilities
Higher education
Home care services
Hospitals
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Infants
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability insurance
Loan defaults
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Medicaid
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical screening
Medical technology
Mental health services
Minorities
Minority health
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Physicians
Pregnant women
Psychotherapy
Public-private partnerships
School health programs
Small business
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Unemployment insurance
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Katrina Health Access, Recovery, and Empowerment Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide low-interest loans to small business concerns located in a Hurricane Katrina-affected area for the restoration of health care and health care services.
 
Provides for tax credits, deductions, and grants for medical malpractice insurance and medical liability insurance for providers located in such areas.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to make payments from the Health Safety Net Infrastructure Trust Fund (established under this Act) for capital financing assistance to eligible health care facilities located in such an area for replacement, modernization and renovation projects, and capital equipment acquisition.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements to enable higher education institutions in such an area to resume health care-related programs.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Director of the Office of Minority Health, to designate as medically needy Katrina recovery zones areas located in a Hurricane Katrina-affected area that experience disproportionate racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care.
 
Provides for grants to: (1) such recovery zones; (2) public health facilities for constructing, modernizing, or repairing health facilities damaged as a result of Hurricane Katrina; and (3) organizations in a Hurricane Katrina-affected area seeking to improve health of minorities and reduce health disparities.
 
Requires states to provide Disaster Relief Medicaid Assistance to Katrina survivors as a condition of participation in the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House