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To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

November 20, 2008CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mrs. CLINTON (for herself and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Protecting Patients and Health Care Act’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON REGULATIONS.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not finalize, enforce, implement, or take other action in furtherance of proposed regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services, 73 Fed. Reg. 50274 (August 26, 2008) (purportedly under the authority of section 401 of the Health Programs Extension Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 300a-7), commonly referred to as the ‘Church Amendments’, section 245 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n), and section 508(d) of division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161), commonly referred to as the ‘Weldon Amendment’).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink