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H.R.1387
Sponsor: Rep Ganske, Greg [IA-4] (introduced 4/4/2001)
Latest Major Action: 4/25/2001 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Title: To amend the Social Security Act to improve access to prescription drugs for low-income Medicare beneficiaries, the Internal Revenue Code and other Acts to improve access to health care coverage for seniors, the self-employed, and children, and to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosemetic Act to improve meaningful access to reasonably priced prescription drugs.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
4/4/2001:
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
4/4/2001:
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
4/25/2001:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
4/4/2001:
Referred to House Ways and Means
4/24/2001:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(13), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Davis, Danny K. - 5/23/2002 [IL-7] Rep Emerson, Jo Ann - 4/4/2001 [MO-8]
Rep Frank, Barney - 4/4/2001 [MA-4] Rep Gilchrest, Wayne T. - 4/4/2001 [MD-1]
Rep Gutknecht, Gil - 4/4/2001 [MN-1] Rep Horn, Stephen - 4/4/2001 [CA-38]
Rep Johnson, Timothy V. - 4/4/2001 [IL-15] Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. - 4/4/2001 [NC-3]
Rep Leach, James A. - 4/4/2001 [IA-1] Rep Sanders, Bernard - 4/4/2001 [VT]
Rep Terry, Lee - 4/4/2001 [NE-2] Rep Traficant, James A., Jr. - 4/4/2001 [OH-17]
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 4/4/2001 [MD-4]

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/4/2001--Introduced.

Drug Availability and Health Care Access Improvement Act of 2001 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require State Medicaid plans to cover prescribed drugs for qualified Medicare (SSA title XVIII) and other low-income Medicare beneficiaries.

Provides full Federal funding for such Medicaid coverage.

Amends SSA title XVIII part C (Medicare+Choice), as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, with respect to access to Medicare+Choice plans through an increase in the minimum Medicare+Choice capitation rate.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the program for importation of certain prescription drugs by pharmacists and wholesalers to: (1) revise importer drug testing requirements; (2) prohibit drug manufacturers from discriminating against U.S. pharmacists, wholesalers, or consumers; and (3) changes from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Comptroller General responsibility for a specified study on drug imports.