US Congress House Bill 8137 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on August 28 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-08-28 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Pending: House Energy And Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records. Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.

Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

Rep. David Trone [D-MD]

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]

Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-28	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2020-08-28	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8137/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr8137/BILLS-116hr8137ih.pdf