3.0.0 3473 2019-11-15T21:52:20Z 2019-11-15T21:52:20Z Senate S S 2012-08-01 112 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-08-01T20:46:12Z Protecting Access to Healthcare Act 112 5 HR 2012-04-16 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 353. Related bill CRS Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2011 112 157 HR 2011-02-01 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act of 2011 112 1099 HR 2011-03-29 Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights. Related bill CRS Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act 112 1943 HR 2011-07-11 Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet. Related bill CRS Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2011 112 3586 HR 2011-12-14 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Related bill CRS Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2012 112 5838 HR 2012-06-05 Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet. Related bill CRS Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act 112 192 S 2011-01-27 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4. Related bill CRS Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 112 218 S 2011-01-27 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 112 6389 HR 2012-09-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Identical bill CRS 2012-08-01 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2012-08-01 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5880-5882) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2012-08-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK N Health Advisory bodies Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration Budget process Civil actions and liability Climate change and greenhouse gases Competition and antitrust Disaster relief and insurance Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Emergency medical services and trauma care Environmental regulatory procedures Evidence and witnesses Federal preemption Food assistance and relief Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health facilities and institutions Health personnel Health promotion and preventive care Health technology, devices, supplies Insurance industry and regulation Intergovernmental relations Judicial procedure and administration Lawyers and legal services Medicaid Medicare Prescription drugs Product safety and quality Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations State and local finance Health 00 2012-08-01 Introduced in Senate 2012-11-05T22:06:07Z Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 - Title I: Fully Repeal the Sequestration Provision of Round 2 of the Budget Control Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm--Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal its budget goal enforcement requirements (sequestration mandate).

Title II: Repeal of Health Care Law - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and restores or revives any provisions of law amended or repealed by it as if PPACA had not been enacted.

Repeals title I (Coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and Revenues) and subtitle B (Health) of title II of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and restores or revives any provisions of law amended or repealed by them as if such title and subtitle had not been enacted.

Repeals the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, including the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Title III: Nutrition Assistance Block Grant Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a nutrition assistance block grant program of annual grants to each participating state that establishes a nutrition assistance program including work requirements, mandatory drug testing, and benefit use limitations at least as restrictive as those for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Title IV: Block Grant the Medicaid Program - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicaid block grant program of annual grants to each participating state that establishes a medical assistance program for individuals.

Repeals title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and eliminates mandatory direct funding for the existing Medicaid program.

Title V: Reduction of Federal Workforce - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine the number of full-time employees employed in each federal agency.

Prohibits the head of each federal agency from hiring more than 2 employees for every 3 employees who leave employment in the agency until the number of full-time employees in the agency is 10% less than the number determined by the OMB Director under this title.

Title VI: Prohibition on Climate Change and Global Warming Funding - Prohibits the expenditure of federal funds for any activity relating to climate change or global warming.

Title VII: Protecting Access to Health Care - Protecting Access to Healthcare Act - Title I: HEALTH Act - Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2012 - Prescribes requirements for lawsuits for health care goods and services liability claims.

Sets a three-year statute of limitations after the manifestation of injury or one year after the claimant discovers the injury, with certain exceptions.

Limits noneconomic damages to $250,000. Makes each party liable only for the amount of damages directly proportional to such party's percentage of responsibility.

Allows the court to restrict the payment of attorney contingency fees.

Authorizes the award of punitive damages only where: (1) it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that a person acted with malicious intent to injure the claimant or deliberately failed to avoid unnecessary injury the claimant was substantially certain to suffer, and (2) compensatory damages are awarded. Limits punitive damages to the greater of two times the amount of economic damages or $250,000.

Limits the liability of manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and providers of medical products that comply with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards.

Provides for periodic payments of future damage awards.

Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to deem a hospital or an emergency department and a physician or physician group of that hospital or emergency department to be an employee of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise from providing emergency and post-stabilization services on or after January 1, 2012.

Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act of 2012 - Declares that nothing in the McCarran-Ferguson Act (which exempts the insurance business generally from federal regulation) shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance. Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2012 - Amends the PHSA to declare that a health care professional shall not be liable under federal or state law, with certain exceptions, for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer for purposes of responding to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as such a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services.

Places on the plaintiff in any civil action or proceeding against a health care professional the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the limitation of liability under this Act does not apply.

Title VIII: Budget Control Act Spending Cap Adjustments - Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to reenact the requirements for enforcement of discretionary spending limits as they were in effect on January 15, 2012.

Specifies discretionary spending caps for the security category (Budget Function 050, largely Department of Defense [DOD]) and the non-security category for FY2013-FY2022.]]>

Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Protecting Access to Health Care Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2012 Official Title as Introduced A bill to replace automatic spending cuts with targeted reforms, and for other purposes. Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act Display Title Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced Sequestration Prevention Act of 2012 Introduced in Senate 2012-08-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s3473is/xml/BILLS-112s3473is.xml 2012-08-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.