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H.CON.RES.328
Sponsor: Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-15] (introduced 2/13/2002)
Latest Major Action: 3/5/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under the Medicare Program and with respect to providing for appropriate new budget authority for such coverage.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
2/13/2002:
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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.
2/13/2002:
Referred to House Ways and Means
2/13/2002:
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
3/5/2002:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
2/13/2002:
Referred to House Budget
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(16), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Bonior, David E. - 2/13/2002 [MI-10] Rep Brown, Corrine - 2/13/2002 [FL-3]
Rep Carson, Julia - 2/26/2002 [IN-10] Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 4/11/2002 [MO-1]
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 2/13/2002 [MI-14] Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 3/6/2002 [MD-7]
Rep Filner, Bob - 2/26/2002 [CA-50] Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 2/13/2002 [OH-11]
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 2/13/2002 [OH-9] Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/12/2002 [WA-7]
Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/6/2002 [MA-3] Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 3/6/2002 [CA-34]
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 2/13/2002 [DC] Rep Payne, Donald M. - 2/13/2002 [NJ-10]
Rep Watt, Melvin L. - 2/14/2002 [NC-12] Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 3/6/2002 [MD-4]

SUMMARY AS OF:
2/13/2002--Introduced.

Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) an outpatient prescription drug benefit for medicare beneficiaries (under title XVIII of the Social Security Act) should be enacted in 2002; (2) the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 2003 should include new budget authority for each of FY 2003 through 2008 to provide for medicare coverage of outpatient prescription drugs; and (3) the aggregate amount of that new budget authority for FY 2003 through 2008 should be $300 billion.