Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act

Bill: 109-hr-3561
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Accident prevention
Administrative procedure
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Aliens
American Samoa
Asthma
Authorization
Autoimmune diseases
Block grants
Boundaries
Building construction
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child health
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Coinsurance
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Cost control
Cost effectiveness
DNA
Demography
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Disabled
Distance education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug approvals
Drugs
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental research
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foreclosure
Foundations
Genetic research
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Gynecology
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Health education
Health facilities
Health insurance
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Homeless
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Immigration
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Loan defaults
Marshall Islands
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health services
Mexico
Micronesia
Migrant labor
Minimum wages
Minorities
Minority education
Minority employment
Minority health
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Obesity
Oceania
Pacific Islanders
Palau Islands
Parents
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Poor children
Poverty
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel
Puerto Rico
Quality of care
Racial discrimination
Research centers
Research grants
Rural health
Scholarships
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Social work
State government-Indian relations
State laws
Stroke
Student loan funds
Telemedicine
Translating and interpreting
Tuberculosis
Virgin Islands
Wages
Weight loss
Welfare eligibility
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act - FamilyCare Act of 2005 - Renames title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act as the FamilyCare Program and extends coverage to certain low-income adults. 
 
Establishes the National Commission for Expanded Access to Health Care.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide limited English proficient individuals with improved access to health care, including by establishing the Robert T. Matsui Center for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Healthcare.
 
Provides for activities regarding: (1) health workforce diversity; (2) disparities in health and health care experienced by racial and ethnic minorities; and (3) data collection, analysis, and reporting by race, ethnicity, and primary language.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish: (1) the Office of Health Disparities within the Office of Civil Rights to prevent discrimination in federal programs; and (2) the Office of Minority Affairs within the Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs. 
 
Restablishes the Indian Health Service as an agency of the Public Health Service to be administered by an Assistant Secretary of Indian Health.
 
Minority Health and Genomics Act of 2005 - Establishes the Minority Health and Genomics Commission to study issues relating to genomics research as applied to minority groups.
 
Establishes the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice and the Federal Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.
 
Sets forth programs designed to improve the quality of and access to health care for minorities, including by establishing the Health Safety Net Infrastructure Trust Fund.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) the Annie Dodge Wauneka and Susan Laflesche-Picotte Native American Health and Wellness Foundation; and (2) a Joint Working Group on Telehealth.
 
Authorizes integrative eldercare, American Indian and Alaska Native, and oral health telehealth demonstration projects.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2320)
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Resources, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House