Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-164
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Cancer
Crime victims
Criminal justice information and records
Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicare and state Medicaid programs to provide routine HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening services. State Medicaid programs must provide these services without cost sharing for the screened individual.
 
 The bill amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require group health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for routine HIV/AIDS and STI screening under no less favorable terms than other routine health screenings. The bill prohibits activities to avoid these requirements.
 
State Medicaid programs may receive enhanced federal matching funds for covering individuals with HIV/AIDS whose income and resources do not exceed the limits for disabled individuals.
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must track STI screening trends and other information regarding people with disabilities and women who have sex with women.
 The CDC must work with others to: (1) make sex education materials accessible to the deaf and hearing loss community and to people with intellectual disabilities, (2) track access to women's health services for women with severe mobility impairments, (3) increase the number of people in public health careers who are deaf or living with hearing loss, (4) ensure that cervical cancer screening guidelines state that women who have sex with women should be subject to the same screening as women who have sex with men, and (5) improve information collection concerning STIs in transgender communities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House