[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 20 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 S. 20

 To prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 20, 2008

  Mrs. Clinton (for herself and Mrs. Murray) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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''.

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) (purportedly 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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