To impose a 2-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

3/28/2007--Introduced.
Imposes a two-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule ("Medicaid Program; Cost Limit for Providers Operated by Units of Government and Provisions To Ensure the Integrity of Federal-State Financial Partnership") relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services, at any time before the end of such two-year period, from taking any action to:
(1) finalize (or otherwise implement) provisions contained in the proposed rule; or
(2) restrict Medicaid payments for graduate medical education (GME).

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Sponsor

• Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
• and 6 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R, FL-4]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
  • Rep. John Salazar [D, CO-3]
  • Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D, FL-20]
  • Heather Wilson
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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.1741

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 28, 2007

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• Mar 29, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Introduced on Mar 28, 2007.
• Mar 28, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.1480
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Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Administrative procedure
• Budgets
• Children
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• Department of Health and Human Services
• Education
• Executive departments
• Federal aid to child health services
• Federal aid to education
• Higher education
• Intergovernmental fiscal relations
• Law
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical education
• Medically uninsured
• Poor children
• State and local government
• Welfare

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