Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act

Bill: 111-hr-3000
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Child health
Comprehensive health care
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
Family planning and birth control
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Personnel records
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act - Establishes the United States Health Service as an independent executive branch entity to provide health care and supplemental health services to all individuals within the United States. Requires the President to appoint members to a National Health Board to exercise the authority of the Service. 
 
Establishes an Office of the Inspector General for Health Services.
 
Requires the Service to ensure that every individual is given certain basic health rights, including the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services from any facility within the Service capable of providing such services without charge and without discrimination. 
 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide employees with leave to receive necessary health care services. 
 
Requires the Board to: (1) establish any necessary health care facilities; (2) establish guidelines for the classification, certification, and employment of health workers by job category; (3) provide for the education of health workers through health team schools and loan repayment; (4) establish a health advocacy program to ensure the realization of patients' rights; (5) oversee occupational safety and health programs; and (6) conduct research concerning health and health care delivery. 
Transfers to the Board the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that conduct research on health and health care. Requires the Board to establish additional research institutes. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a health services tax on the income of individuals and corporations to fund the Health Service Trust Fund (established under this Act). 
Transfers to the Service certain authority of the Secretary of HHS. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Education and Labor
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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: 2009-06-23
text: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House