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H.R.1645
Sponsor: Rep Stark, Fortney Pete (introduced 4/29/1999)
Latest Major Action: 5/17/1999 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for full payment rates under Medicare to hospitals for costs of direct graduate medical education of residents for residency training programs in specialties or subspecialties which the Secretary of Health and Human Services designates as critical need specialty or subspecialty training programs.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions) (Floor Actions/Congressional Record Page References)
4/29/1999:
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
4/29/1999:
Referred to House Ways and Means
5/7/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
4/29/1999:
Referred to House Commerce
5/17/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
COMMITTEE(S):
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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(22), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 11/5/1999 Rep Bentsen, Ken - 4/10/2000
Rep Berkley, Shelley - 11/5/1999 Rep Bonior, David E. - 6/18/1999
Rep Brown, Corrine - 4/29/1999 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 4/29/1999
Rep Davis, Danny K. - 7/1/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 4/29/1999
Rep Frost, Martin - 4/29/1999 Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 5/13/1999
Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 4/29/1999 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 6/24/1999
Rep Inslee, Jay - 5/13/1999 Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 4/29/1999
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 4/29/1999 Rep Lewis, John - 4/29/1999
Rep Matsui, Robert T. - 5/13/1999 Rep McDermott, Jim - 4/29/1999
Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 7/21/1999 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 5/20/1999
Rep Thurman, Karen L. - 4/29/1999 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 6/14/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/29/1999--Introduced.

Medicare Critical Need GME Protection Act of 1999 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for full payment to hospitals for costs of direct graduate medical education of residents for training in what the Secretary of Health and Human Services designates as a critical need specialty or subspecialty training program. States that such training shall be treated as part of the initial residency period, but shall not be counted against any limitation on the initial residency period.