Bills About Health Sponsored by Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.)

Rep. Engel sponsored 79 bills about health in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced	Number	Title	Cosponsors	Cosponsor Party	Latest Action
Nov. 8, 2019	H.R.4995	To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve obstetric care and maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.	31	Bipartisan	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sept. 18, 2020	H.RES.1125	Expressing support for prioritizing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials for therapies, diagnostics, and vaccines for COVID-19.	22	All Democrats	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Aug. 7, 2020	H.RES.1079	Expressing support for the designation of August 9 through 15, 2020, as National Health Center Week and encourages all Americans to take part in this week by visiting their local health center and celebrating the important partnership between America's community health centers and the communities they serve.	80	Bipartisan	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
May 22, 2020	H.R.6971	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the availability of medical nutrition therapy services under the Medicare program.	10	Bipartisan	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.
May 8, 2020	H.RES.957	Expressing support for the designation of May as "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month".	3	Bipartisan	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
March 12, 2020	H.R.6218	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to clarify congressional intent and preserve patient access to home infusion therapy under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.	9	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 27, 2020	H.R.5997	To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to designate an official within the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate the efforts of Federal departments and agencies with respect to COVID-19.	0		Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Nov. 21, 2019	H.R.5230	To amend the Public Health Service Act with regard to research on asthma, and for other purposes.	26	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct. 31, 2019	H.R.4955	To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify the meaning of a new chemical entity.	3	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 17, 2019	H.R.647	To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, social work schools, and other programs, including physician assistant education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.	295	Bipartisan	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct. 8, 2019	H.RES.622	Expressing support for designation of the week of October 6, 2019, through October 12, 2019, as "Latex Allergy Awareness Week".	0		Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Sept. 26, 2019	H.R.4519	To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health to make awards to outstanding scientists, including physician-scientists, to support researchers focusing on pediatric research, including basic, clinical, translational, or pediatric pharmacological research, and for other purposes.	33	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sept. 18, 2019	H.CON.RES.63	Expressing the sense of Congress that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should take action to ensure that home infusion therapy services are accessible to all Medicare beneficiaries.	0		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug. 9, 2019	H.R.4178	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require manufacturers of certain single-dose vial drugs payable under part B of the Medicare program to provide rebates with respect to amounts of such drugs discarded, and for other purposes.	0		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
July 25, 2019	H.R.4019	To protect and educate children about the dangers of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems, and for other purposes.	9	Bipartisan	Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
June 27, 2019	H.R.3558	To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on the state of hospital infrastructure in the United States, and for other purposes.	1	All Republicans	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 5, 2019	H.R.3109	To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	1	All Republicans	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 4, 2019	H.R.3080	To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance the national strategy for combating and eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes.	18	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 24, 2019	H.R.3022	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to repeal the reductions in Medicaid DSH allotments, and for other purposes.	0		Subcommittee Hearings Held.
May 7, 2019	H.RES.356	Expressing support for designation of May as "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month".	2	All Republicans	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 6, 2019	H.R.1551	To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.	27	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 11, 2019	H.R.501	To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and enhance the poison center national toll-free number, national media campaign, and grant program, and for other purposes.	4	Bipartisan	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
July 25, 2018	H.R.6517	To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to establish and implement reforms to the criteria for liver allocation so that such allocation is not based on the donor candidate's place of residence or listing, except to the extent necessary to avoid wasting organs, and for other purposes.	27	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 22, 2017	H.R.1676	To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, social work schools, and other programs, including physician assistant education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.	285	Bipartisan	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
April 10, 2018	H.R.5457	To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.	21	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
April 2, 2018	H.R.5423	To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	4	All Democrats	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sept. 27, 2017	H.RES.542	Expressing support for designation of the week of October 1 through 7, 2017, as "Latex Allergy Awareness Week".	1	All Democrats	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
April 12, 2017	H.R.2088	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase certain Federal amounts payable under Medicaid for certain States.	8	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 27, 2017	H.RES.67	Expressing support for designation of November 2017, as "National Bladder Health Month".	3	All Democrats	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
April 26, 2016	H.RES.703	Expressing support for designation of November 2016, as "National Bladder Health Month".	10	Bipartisan	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
March 3, 2016	H.R.4695	To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.	61	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sept. 30, 2015	H.R.3658	To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	5	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
July 21, 2015	H.R.3119	To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, social work schools, and other programs, including physician assistant education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.	234	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 28, 2015	H.R.605	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home as a site of care for infusion therapy under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.	81	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sept. 10, 2014	H.R.5435	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home as a site of care for infusion therapy under the Medicare Program.	7	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 9, 2013	H.R.1915	To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	44	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 21, 2013	H.R.1339	To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.	170	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 28, 2013	H.R.896	To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.	19	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
July 19, 2012	H.R.6155	To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other programs, to promote education in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative medicine.	39	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 21, 2012	H.R.6006	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV.	1	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec. 8, 2011	H.R.3620	To amend title IX of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing a maternity care quality measurement program, evaluating maternity care home models, and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives.	2	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 15, 2011	H.R.2195	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program.	32	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 15, 2011	H.R.2194	To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	39	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
April 15, 2011	H.R.1606	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States to provide oral health services to aged, blind, or disabled individuals under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.	9	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov. 18, 2010	H.R.6437	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing a maternity care quality measurement program, identifying payment mechanism improvements, and identifying essential evidence-based maternity care services.	3	Bipartisan	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
May 20, 2010	H.R.5354	To establish an Advisory Committee on Gestational Diabetes, to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	26	Bipartisan	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
July 10, 2009	H.R.3176	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of professional medical services of optometrists.	1	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 25, 2009	H.R.3055	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to continue Medicaid spousal impoverishment protections for spouses of beneficiaries receiving home and community based services under a current waiver parallel to protections afforded spouses of nursing home residents.	1	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 19, 2009	H.R.1616	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV.	187	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 15, 2009	H.R.574	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program.	104	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 7, 2008	H.R.5265	To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies.	123	Bipartisan	Became Public Law No: 110-361.
Oct. 2, 2008	H.R.7241	To preserve access to healthcare under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.	30	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec. 6, 2007	H.R.4320	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to strengthen the Medicaid third-party liability requirements.	0	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug. 2, 2007	H.R.3326	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV.	168	Bipartisan	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2486)
May 14, 2007	H.R.2295	To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry.	276	Bipartisan	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 457.
Sept. 14, 2007	H.R.3533	To extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a Medicaid rule regarding graduate medical education.	241	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 5, 2007	H.R.2567	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program.	48	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 9, 2007	H.R.2241	To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to prevention and treatment of diabetes, and for other purposes.	9	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 15, 2007	H.R.1544	To establish an Advisory Committee on Gestational Diabetes, to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.	4	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 8, 2006	H.R.4722	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate cost-sharing under part D of such title for certain full-benefit dual eligible individuals.	20	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct. 7, 2005	H.R.4033	To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry.	215	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov. 21, 2003	H.R.3600	To amend the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance issuers to credit toward an annual deductible in case of subsequent issuance of similar health insurance policy by the same issuer to the same person.	0	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
June 16, 2003	H.R.2476	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of home infusion drug therapies under the Medicare Program.	7	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 3, 2003	H.R.1045	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.	1	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 13, 2003	H.R.796	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the Medicare Program.	1	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 14, 2002	H.J.RES.92	Disapproving the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services relating to modification of the Medicaid upper payment limit for non-State government-owned or operated hospitals published on January 18, 2002.	56	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug. 2, 2001	H.R.2750	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of home infusion drug therapies under the Medicare Program.	13	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 17, 2001	H.R.1897	To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Internal Revenue Code to help solve the worsening shortage of registered nurses in hospitals and continuing care settings, and for other purposes.	66	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
March 21, 2001	H.R.1144	To provide for an increase in the Federal investment in research on cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and asthma by $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal investment in such research should further be increased for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2006.	5	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan. 31, 2001	H.R.339	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.	8	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
March 7, 2001	H.R.913	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the Medicare Program.	7	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb. 13, 2001	H.R.579	To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, to make available to Federal employees the option of obtaining health benefits coverage for dependent parents.	25	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Civil Service and Agency Organization.
March 15, 1999	H.R.1109	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.	25	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Jan. 6, 1999	H.R.131	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the Medicare Program.	2	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
April 1, 1998	H.R.3651	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a standard of efficiency in the provision of home health services to Medicare beneficiaries and to reward those home health agencies who meet or exceed the standard, and for other purposes.	27	Bipartisan	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Jan. 9, 1997	H.R.405	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the Medicare program, to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of such program, and for other purposes.	0	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Jan. 7, 1997	H.R.148	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to assure that Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments go directly to Medicaid disproportionate share hospitals.	6	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Jan. 13, 1995	H.R.507	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the medicare program, to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of such program, and for other purposes.	0		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
July 20, 1993	H.R.2673	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of expanded nursing facility and in-home services for dependent individuals under the medicare program, to provide for coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under part B of such program, and for other purposes.	1	All Democrats	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

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