US Congress House Bill 3339 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-08-06 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act (PALS Act) This bill requires that any provision of law referring to current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) with respect to breast cancer screening, mammography, and prevention be administered as if: (1) the provision referred to USPSTF recommendations last issued before 2009; and (2) those recommendations applied to any screening mammography modality, including any digital modality of such a procedure. (In 2009, USPSTF updated its guidelines to recommend against routine screening mammography for women between 40 to 49 years of age and to recommend biennial, instead of annual, screening mammography for most women between 50 to 74 years of age.) In addition, the bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to preserve Medicare coverage for screening mammography, without a requirement for coinsurance, and expand the definition of screening mammography to include any digital modality of such a procedure. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid may not decrease the frequency with which screening mammography may be paid by Medicare for a woman over 39 years of age.

Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act (PALS Act)

Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]
Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. Jackie Walorski [R-IN]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]	Rep. Mimi Walters [R-CA]	Rep. Ann Wagner [R-MO]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]
Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R-MO]	Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]	Rep. Martha Roby [R-AL]	Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]
Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Jody Hice [R-GA]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Frank Guinta [R-NH]
Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. Kristi Noem [R-SD]
Rep. David Rouzer [R-NC]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Keith Rothfus [R-PA]
Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Rep. Evan Jenkins [R-WV]	Rep. David Trott [R-MI]	Rep. Robert Hurt [R-VA]	Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-08-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-07-31	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-07-29	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-07-29	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-07-29	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.
2015-07-29	House	Introduced in House

SB1926 (Related) 2015-08-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3339/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr3339/BILLS-114hr3339ih.pdf