Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4140
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Minority health
Sex and reproductive health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: 
Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) allow a higher payment to states for routine HIV/AIDS and STI (sexually transmitted infections recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) screening services; and (2) require coverage of low-income HIV/AIDS infected individuals.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt a broad policy for voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening for all Medicare beneficiaries who are 13 years of age or older. 
 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to federally qualified health centers to provide voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health plans to provide routine HIV/AIDS and STI screening.
 
Requires the Director of the CDC to: (1) track national HIV/AIDS and STI screening trends and the burdens of HIV/AIDS and STIs among people with disabilities; (2) make sex education materials that promote voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs accessible to the deaf and hearing loss community and to people with intellectual disabilities; (3) ensure that national screening guidelines for cervical cancer state that women who have sex with women should have the same guidelines as women who have sex only with men; and (4) improve information collection concerning the transmission, morbidity, and screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs in transgender communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2009-11-19
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2824)
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-11-19
text: Introduced in House