Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7585
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2022-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Advisory bodies
Aging
Air quality
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Allied health services
American Samoa
Appropriations
Birth defects
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Caribbean area
Child care and development
Child health
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commemorative events and holidays
Community life and organization
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and health-based discrimination
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Due process and equal protection
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Family planning and birth control
Firearms and explosives
Food assistance and relief
Foreign labor
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Fruit and vegetables
Geography and mapping
Government studies and investigations
Guam
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
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
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Immunology and vaccination
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet, web applications, social media
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Minority health
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Racial and ethnic relations
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Surgery and anesthesia
Telephone and wireless communication
U.S. territories and protectorates
Veterans' medical care
Violent crime
Virgin Islands
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-26
text: 

Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2022

 
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and others to undertake efforts to reduce health disparities.
 
For example, the bill (1) requires more detailed reporting of demographic and health disparities data, including related to public health emergencies; (2) directs certain components of HHS to support health workforce diversity; and (3) increases access to culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
 
The bill also modifies eligibility and other requirements for Medicare, Medicaid, private health insurance, nutrition assistance, and other programs to reduce health disparities among vulnerable populations. The bill includes specific provisions with respect to 
 
 
noncitizens;
 
maternal, infant, and child health;
 
mental and behavioral health; 
 
specified conditions that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority groups, such as certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, and diabetes;
 
investments in communities facing health and other inequities; and
 
nondiscrimination in the provision of services in federally supported health programs.
 
 
Additionally, the bill (1) revises health information technology programs to address health disparities, and (2) supports health impact assessments and other efforts pertaining to environmental justice and social determinants of health (i.e., nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes, such as income and educational attainment).
 
The bill also requires various studies and reports on issues related to health care and health disparities, including a report by the Government Accountability Office on health workforce diversity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-26
text: Introduced in House