HCONRES 328
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Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to coverage of outpatient prescription drugs under the Medicare Program and with respect to providing for appropriate new budget authority for such coverage.
Introduced: February 13, 2002
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Mar 5, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Feb 13, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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.
Feb 13, 2002
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) an outpatient prescription drug benefit for medicare beneficiaries (under title XVIII of the Social Security Act) should be enacted in 2002; (2) the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 2003 should include new budget authority for each of FY 2003 through 2008 to provide for medicare coverage of outpatient prescription drugs; and (3) the aggregate amount of that new budget authority for FY 2003 through 2008 should be $300 billion.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
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