[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7310 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7310

 To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2008

 Ms. DeGette (for herself, Ms. Slaughter, Mrs. Capps, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. 
Nadler, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Waxman) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Patients and Health Care 
Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON REGULATIONS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not finalize, 
enforce, implement, or take other action in furtherance of proposed 
regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services, 73 Fed. 
Reg. 50274 (August 26, 2008) (under the authority of section 401 of the 
Health Programs Extension Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 300a-7), commonly 
referred to as the ``Church Amendments'', section 245 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n), and section 508(d) of division G 
of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161), 
commonly referred to as the ``Weldon Amendment'').
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