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S.2394
Sponsor: Sen Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (introduced 4/11/2000)
Related Bills: H.R.4239
Latest Major Action: 4/11/2000 Referred to Senate committee
Title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize indirect graduate medical education payments.
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4/11/2000:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2534)
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COSPONSORS(41), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Ashcroft, John - 9/14/2000 Sen Boxer, Barbara - 4/11/2000
Sen Chafee, Lincoln D. - 5/10/2000 Sen Cleland, Max - 4/11/2000
Sen DeWine, Michael - 4/11/2000 Sen Dodd, Christopher J. - 7/14/2000
Sen Durbin, Richard J. - 4/12/2000 Sen Edwards, John - 4/11/2000
Sen Feinstein, Dianne - 4/11/2000 Sen Frist, Bill - 5/18/2000
Sen Gorton, Slade - 6/9/2000 Sen Hagel, Chuck - 7/24/2000
Sen Helms, Jesse - 4/11/2000 Sen Hollings, Ernest F. - 7/20/2000
Sen Hutchison, Kay Bailey - 6/14/2000 Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 4/11/2000
Sen Jeffords, James M. - 6/21/2000 Sen Johnson, Tim - 4/11/2000
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 4/11/2000 Sen Kerrey, J. Robert - 4/11/2000
Sen Kerry, John F. - 4/11/2000 Sen Landrieu, Mary L. - 4/12/2000
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - 5/2/2000 Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 7/11/2000
Sen Levin, Carl - 4/11/2000 Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - 4/11/2000
Sen Lincoln, Blanche - 7/27/2000 Sen Lugar, Richard G. - 9/28/2000
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. - 4/11/2000 Sen Murray, Patty - 4/11/2000
Sen Reed, Jack - 4/11/2000 Sen Reid, Harry M. - 9/5/2000
Sen Robb, Charles S. - 7/12/2000 Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV - 4/26/2000
Sen Santorum, Rick - 4/11/2000 Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. - 4/11/2000
Sen Schumer, Charles E. - 4/11/2000 Sen Smith, Gordon - 4/11/2000
Sen Specter, Arlen - 4/11/2000 Sen Torricelli, Robert G. - 4/11/2000
Sen Wellstone, Paul D. - 4/11/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/11/2000--Introduced.

Teaching Hospital Preservation Act of 2000 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise a certain formula pertaining to additional payments to hospitals with indirect costs of medical education to maintain the value of a certain variable used in the indirect teaching adjustment factor at the FY 1999 level on or after October 1, 2000. (Current law requires a lesser value for such variable in FY 2001 and thereafter.)