US Congress House Bill 1919 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 21 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Steve Gleason Act of 2015 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as durable medical equipment any eye tracking and gaze interaction accessories for speech generating devices furnished to individuals with a demonstrated medical need for them. Payment for speech generating devices or accessories shall be made on a rental basis, or in a lump-sum amount for the purchase of the item, without a cap on the amount in the case of devices furnished on or after October 1, 2015, and before October 1, 2018.

Steve Gleason Act of 2015

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA]	Rep. Steve Scalise [R-LA]	Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]
Rep. Tom Rice [R-SC]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Mimi Walters [R-CA]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]
Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Patrick McHenry [R-NC]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]
Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. John Kline [R-MN]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]
Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. John Katko [R-NY]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. David Valadao [R-CA]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]
Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]
Rep. Trey Gowdy [R-SC]	Rep. Charles Boustany [R-LA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]
Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]	Rep. Ed Whitfield [R-KY]	Rep. Harold Rogers [R-KY]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Dan Benishek [R-MI]
Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-04-24	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-04-21	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-04-21	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-04-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
2015-04-21	House	Introduced in House

HB628 (Related) 2015-02-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB768 (Related) 2015-03-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB984 (Same As) 2015-07-30 - Became Public Law No: 114-40. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1919/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1919/BILLS-114hr1919ih.pdf