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S.3035
Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max(introduced 9/12/2000)
Latest Major Action: 9/12/2000 Referred to Senate committee
Title: A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to create an independent and nonpartisan commission to assess the health care needs of the uninsured and to monitor the financial stability of the Nation's health care safety net.
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STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
9/12/2000:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(5), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Grassley, Charles E. - 9/12/2000 Sen Hatch, Orrin G. - 9/12/2000
Sen Jeffords, James M. - 9/12/2000 Sen Kerrey, J. Robert - 9/13/2000
Sen Rockefeller IV, John D. - 9/12/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
9/12/2000--Introduced.

Health Care Safety Net Oversight Act of 2000 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to add a new part D to establish the Safety Net Organizations and Patient Advisory Commission to: (1) study the health care safety net programs; and (2) report annually to Congress, the Comptroller General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the health care needs of the uninsured and the financial and infrastructure stability of the core health care safety net of the United States based on such review. Authorizes appropriations.