Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3014
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
American studies
Asian American ethnic groups
Black colleges
Boundaries
Building construction
Cancer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Clinics
Commerce
Community health services
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Discrimination in medical care
Drug approvals
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Epidemiology
Eskimos
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health planning
Health promotion
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Illiteracy
Immigrant health
Immigrants
Immigration
Indian education
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
International Affairs
Labeling
Language and languages
Marriage counseling
Marshall Islands
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Mental health services
Micronesia
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority education
Minority health
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Nutrition
Oceania
Pacific Islanders
Palau Islands
Pharmaceutical research
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Psychotherapy
Public health personnel
Public hospitals
Puerto Rico
Rural health
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Telemedicine
Territories (U.S.)
Translating and interpreting
Virgin Islands
Welfare eligibility
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Robert T. Matsui Center for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Health Care.

Provides for health care workforce diversity activities, including the establishment of: (1) a technical clearinghouse on health workforce diversity; and (2) Regional Minority Centers of Excellence Programs.

Requires health-related programs of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collect data on race, ethnicity, and primary language.

Directs each federal health agency to implement a strategic plan to eliminate disparities and improve the health and health care of minority populations. 

Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) an Office of Health Disparities within the Office of Civil Rights; and (2) civil rights compliance offices in each HHS agency that administers health programs.

Reestablishes the Indian Health Service as an agency within the Public Health Service of HHS to be administered by an Assistant Secretary of Indian Health.

Requires the establishment of an Office of Minority Health within specified agencies.

Directs the President to execute, administer, and enforce provisions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations. 

Provides for the establishment of health empowerment zone programs in communities that disproportionately experience disparities in health status and health care.

Requires the Secretary to designate centers of excellence at public hospitals and other health systems that demonstrate excellence in providing care to minority populations and reducing health disparities.

Makes immigrants from certain U.S. territories and possessions eligible for specified federal programs.

Requires the Secretary to expand the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative.

Provides for grants for strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic health and health care disparities.

Requires the Secretary to establish the Rural Health Quality Advisory Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8124)
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3758-3759, H3761)