3.0.0 6275 2023-01-12T17:52:13Z 2023-01-12T17:52:13Z House H HR 2006-09-29 109 hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Referred to 2006-11-02T21:57:05Z Referred to 2006-09-29T13:08:05Z hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2006-10-02T18:04:06Z Referred to 2006-09-29T13:08:00Z hsii00 Natural Resources Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-09-29T13:08:20Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-09-29T13:08:15Z hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-09-29T13:08:10Z 2006-11-02 hsed02 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Committee 2006-10-12 hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 1 House committee actions Executive Comment Requested from HHS. Committee 2006-10-02 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2006-09-29 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2006-09-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2006-09-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress C000380 Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large] DONNA CHRISTENSEN D VI M. N D000602 Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7] Artur Davis D AL 7 2006-09-29 True N000147 Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] ELEANOR NORTON D DC HOLMES 0 2006-09-29 True Health Access to health care Black colleges Cancer Chronically ill Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Communication in medicine Congress Congressional investigations Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Discrimination in medical care Drug approvals Drugs Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Environmental Protection Environmental health Environmental justice Environmental research Executive reorganization Families Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Health education Health information systems Health insurance Higher education Hispanic Americans Housing and Community Development Indian education Labor and Employment Medicaid Medical education Medical personnel Medical research Medical screening Medical statistics Medical tests Medically uninsured Medicare Mentoring Minorities Minorities in medicine Minority education Minority employment Minority health Native Americans Patient satisfaction Patients' rights Pharmaceutical research Poor children Quality of care Rural health Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Scientists Secondary education Social Welfare Student loan funds Translating and interpreting World health Health 00 2006-09-29 Introduced in House 2006-12-12T21:46:48Z Health Equity and Justice Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for: (1) establishment of the Robert T. Matsui Center for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Healthcare; (2) programs to improve language access to health care for individuals with limited English proficiency; and (3) programs to improve health care for patient populations that have low functional health literacy.

Provides for the establishment of: (1) a national working group on workforce diversity; (2) a technical clearinghouse on health workforce diversity; (3) a health and healthcare disparities education program; and (4) an Advisory Committee on Health Professions Training for Diversity.

Requires federal health-related programs to: (1) require the collection of data on the race, ethnicity, and primary language of each applicant for and recipient of health-related assistance; and (2) analyze such data to detect racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.

Renames the Office of Minority Health as the Office of Minority Health Disparity Elimination.

Requires the Indian Health Service (IHS) to be administered by an Assistant Secretary of Indian Health (in place of the Director of IHS), who shall report directly to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Requires four specified federal agencies to each establish an Office of Minority Health and Racial, Ethnic, and Primary Language Health Disparities Elimination. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) an Office of Minority Health within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and (2) an Office of Minority Affairs within the Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.

Establishes the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice and the Federal Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.

Provides for grants to establish health empowerment zone programs in communities that disproportionately experience disparities in health status and health care.

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