3.0.0 3000 2023-01-11T13:18:46Z 2023-01-11T13:18:46Z House H HR 2009-06-23 111 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2009-06-24T14:08:58Z Referred to 2009-06-23T14:32:49Z hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2009-06-23T14:33:40Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2009-06-23T14:32:50Z 2009-06-24 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2009-06-23 Referred to House Education and Labor IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2009-06-23 Referred to House Ways and Means IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2009-06-23 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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 2009-06-23 Referred to House Energy and Commerce IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2009-06-23 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2009-06-23 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress L000551 Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9] BARBARA LEE D CA 9 N Health Administrative remedies Child health Comprehensive health care Emergency medical services and trauma care Employee benefits and pensions Employee leave Employment discrimination and employee rights Executive agency funding and structure Family planning and birth control Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Government liability Government trust funds Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health information and medical records Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Health technology, devices, supplies Home and outpatient care Hospital care Income tax deductions Income tax exclusion Income tax rates Lawyers and legal services Licensing and registrations Medical education Medical research Medical tests and diagnostic methods Personnel records Prescription drugs Research administration and funding Sex and reproductive health Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Women's health Worker safety and health Health 00 2009-06-23 Introduced in House 2009-10-06T20:07:21Z Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act - Establishes the United States Health Service as an independent executive branch entity to provide health care and supplemental health services to all individuals within the United States. Requires the President to appoint members to a National Health Board to exercise the authority of the Service.

Establishes an Office of the Inspector General for Health Services.

Requires the Service to ensure that every individual is given certain basic health rights, including the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services from any facility within the Service capable of providing such services without charge and without discrimination.

Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide employees with leave to receive necessary health care services.

Requires the Board to: (1) establish any necessary health care facilities; (2) establish guidelines for the classification, certification, and employment of health workers by job category; (3) provide for the education of health workers through health team schools and loan repayment; (4) establish a health advocacy program to ensure the realization of patients' rights; (5) oversee occupational safety and health programs; and (6) conduct research concerning health and health care delivery.

Transfers to the Board the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that conduct research on health and health care. Requires the Board to establish additional research institutes.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a health services tax on the income of individuals and corporations to fund the Health Service Trust Fund (established under this Act).

Transfers to the Service certain authority of the Secretary of HHS.

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