Remember 9/11 Health Act

Bill: 109-s-4022
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care workers
Child health
Coinsurance
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Day care
Directories
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government liability
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health surveys
Higher education
Insurance premiums
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Mass rapid transit
Medical economics
Medical research
Medical tests
Mental health services
New York City
Occupational health and safety
Office buildings
Paramedical personnel
Physical examinations
Police
Refuse and refuse disposal
Rescue work
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
September 11, 2001
Social Welfare
State employees
Students
Teachers
Terrorism
Toxicology
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Victims of terrorism
Virginia
Volunteer workers
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Remember 9/11 Health Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to deem certain emergency service, rescue and recovery, and law enforcement personnel and transit and cleanup workers who responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, residents of and individuals employed or attending school, child care, or adult day care in the declared disaster area (eligible recipients) to be civil employees under provisions relating to: (1) compensation to federal employees for work injuries; and (2) claims relating to damage to, or loss of, personal property incident to federal service, except that such an eligible recipient shall not be responsible for the payment of any health care expenses that result from exposure to the adverse conditions after such attack.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants or cooperative agreements to specified programs, including one established by the New York City Fire Department, to carry out screening and clinical examinations and long-term health monitoring and analysis for eligible recipients. Limits such monitoring to 20 years and 40,000 individuals. 
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct or support diagnostic or treatment research for adverse health conditions considered to be associated with the terrorist attacks.
 
Allows the Secretary to establish similar compensation and health programs for those affected by the September 11, 2001, Pentagon attack.
 
 Requires the Secretary to convene a 9/11 Health Emergency Coordinating Council to examine and formulate recommendations on the adequacy of the: (1) responses by the federal, state, and local governments and the private sector to the attacks; (2) care and compensation for the victims; (3) federal tracking of the monitoring and treatment of individuals suffering health effects from the attacks; and (4) coordination among the Council members to the attacks. Allows the Council, upon request, to issue advisory opinions on the relative obligation of the federal government and any insurance company resulting from the attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate