Communities Building Access Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for community projects that will reduce the number of individuals who are uninsured with respect to health care, and for other purposes.

3/26/2007--Introduced.
Communities Building Access Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public or nonprofit private entities to carry out demonstration projects for the purpose of making health care coverage available, on a cost-sharing basis, to:
(1) employees through employers that have not contributed to health care benefits for employees during the prior 12 months; and
(2) self-employed individuals who have been without such coverage during the prior 12 months. Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to public or nonprofit private entities to carry out demonstration projects for the purpose of forming and maintaining networks composed of health care specialists who volunteer health services to eligible individuals. Directs the Secretary to make an award of a grant or contract for the establishment and operation of a clearinghouse for information on demonstration projects under this Act and similar projects that are community initiated. Allows the Secretary to carry out a program to encourage public and private entities that plan or operate such projects to submit information to the clearinghouse.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Peter Hoekstra [R, MI-2]
• and 26 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. John Boozman [R, AR-3]
  • Rep. David Camp [R, MI-4]
  • Rep. André Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Steven Chabot
  • Rep. Nathan Deal [R, GA-9]
  • Rep. John Duncan [R, TN-2]
  • Rep. Vernon Ehlers [R, MI-3]
  • Paul Gillmor
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Dean Heller [R, NV-2]
  • Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
  • Rep. Rick Larsen [D, WA-2]
  • Rep. Thomas Latham [R, IA-4]
  • Rep. Sander Levin [D, MI-12]
  • Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
  • Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23]
  • Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]
  • Rep. George Radanovich [R, CA-19]
  • Rep. Timothy Ryan [D, OH-17]
  • Rep. Jean Schmidt [R, OH-2]
  • Rep. Mark Souder [R, IN-3]
  • Rep. Bart Stupak [D, MI-1]
  • Rep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]
  • Rep. Christopher Van Hollen [D, MD-8]
  • Timothy Walberg
  • Albert Wynn
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 1 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.1683

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 26, 2007

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• Mar 27, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Introduced on Mar 26, 2007.
• Mar 26, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Access to health care
• Budgets
• Chronically ill
• 21 more
• Data banks
• Economic impact statements
• Economic policy
• Employee health benefits
• Finance
• Grants-in-aid
• Health information systems
• Health insurance
• Health maintenance organizations
• Labor
• Managed care
• Medical care
• Medical economics
• Medical personnel
• Medically uninsured
• Medicine
• Nonprofit organizations
• Self-employed
• Social services
• Technology
• Volunteer workers

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April 26, 2007 HR 1683 Enrolled

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March 28, 2007 More Halfway Solutions to the Healthcare Crisis

Introduced in the US House of Representatives by Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), the Communities Building Access Act (HR 1683) would provide $45 million in federal grants to spark locally focused solutions to the national ...

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March 28, 2007 More Halfway Solutions to the Healthcare Crisis

Introduced in the US House of Representatives by Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), the Communities Building Access Act (HR 1683) would provide $45 million in federal grants to spark locally focused solutions to the national ...

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