US Congress Senate Bill 3166 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-07-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including whether the health professional shortage area designation under the National Health Service Corps program accurately assesses adequacy of access or whether another measure or designation would be more appropriate. HHS must consider potential methodologies for designating surgical health professional shortage areas.

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2016

Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]

Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-07-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3166/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s3166/BILLS-114s3166is.pdf