[History of Bills, Volume 143 (1997)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 2754--A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and 
    title 38, United States Code, to require hospitals to use only 
    hollow-bore needle devices that minimize the risk of needlestick 
    injury to health care workers; to the Committees on Ways and 
    Means; Veterans' Affairs; Commerce, 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.


By Mr. STARK (for himself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Lewis of 
Georgia, Mr. Matsui, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Manton, Mr. Dellums, Mr. 
Frost, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Eddie 
Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Thompson, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Gutierrez, 
Mr. Fattah, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, 
Mr. Sandlin, Ms. Kilpatrick, and Mr. LoBiondo), H9614 [28OC]