Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-139
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2015-01-08
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid

Medical research

Poverty and welfare assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2015-10-07
text: Became Public Law No: 114-63.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for eligibility purposes, of compensation in the amount of the first $2,000 per year received by individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.</p>

action_date: 2015-07-16
action_desc: Passed Senate without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)</p> <p><b>Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for eligibility purposes, of compensation in the amount of the first $2,000 per year received by individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.</p>

action_date: 2015-09-28
action_desc: Passed House without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate-passed version is repeated here.)</p> <p><b>Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for eligibility purposes, of compensation in the amount of the first $2,000 per year received by individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.</p>

action_date: 2015-10-07
action_desc: Public Law
text: <p />This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate-passed version is repeated here.) <p><b>Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 </b></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for eligibility purposes, of compensation in the amount of the first $2,000 per year received by individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 139 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 8, 2015 Mr. Wyden (for himself, Mr. Hatch , Mr. Markey , and Mr. Brown ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To permanently allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 . 2. Elimination of sunset provision Effective as if included in the enactment of the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–255 , 124 Stat. 2640), section 3 of that Act is amended by striking subsection (e).

tv_txt: 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 139 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To permanently allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 . 2. Elimination of sunset provision Effective as if included in the enactment of the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–255 , 124 Stat. 2640), section 3 of that Act is amended by striking subsection (e).

Passed the Senate July 16, 2015. Secretary

tv_txt: IC 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 139 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 20, 2015 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means , and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , 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 AN ACT To permanently allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 . 2. Elimination of sunset provision Effective as if included in the enactment of the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–255 , 124 Stat. 2640), section 3 of that Act is amended by striking subsection (e).

Passed the Senate July 16, 2015. Julie E. Adams, Secretary

tv_txt: One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America 1st Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen S. 139 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To permanently allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 . 2. Elimination of sunset provision Effective as if included in the enactment of the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–255 , 124 Stat. 2640), section 3 of that Act is amended by striking subsection (e).

Speaker of the House of Representatives Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate