US Congress Senate Bill 1351 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on June 14 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-06-14 - 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 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including: (1) whether the health professional shortage area designation under the National Health Service Corps program accurately assesses adequacy of access and whether another measure would be more accurate, and (2) potential methodologies for designating general surgery shortage areas. HHS must publish data comparing the availability and need of general surgery services in urban, suburban, and rural areas. HHS may establish a methodology for designating general surgery shortage areas and make such designations. HHS must publish a list of general surgery shortage areas.

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-06-14	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB2906 (Related) 2017-06-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1351/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1351/BILLS-115s1351is.pdf