S 285 109th Congress Senate Health Administrative remedies Authorization Child health Department of Health and Human Services Economics and Public Finance Education Families Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Government Operations and Politics Graduate education Higher education Hospital personnel Hospitals Infants Labor and Employment Law Maternal health services

CHEER Act

Introduced: February 3, 2005 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Aug 5, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Jul 27, 2005

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Jul 27, 2005

Received in the House.

Jul 27, 2005

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Jul 26, 2005

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9056; text as passed Senate: CR S9056)

Jul 26, 2005

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9056; text as passed Senate: CR S9056)

May 11, 2005

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 98.

May 11, 2005

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-66.

Feb 9, 2005

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Feb 3, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Feb 3, 2005

Introduced in Senate

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Children's Hospitals Educational Equity and Research Act or the CHEER Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments through FY2010 (currently, through FY2005) to children's hospitals for expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs.

Excludes reductions for unused resident positions when calculating the number of full-time residents in a children's hospital's approved training program for purposes of reimbursing direct expenses.

Requires the Secretary to adjust the proportion of such a hospital's costs attributable to wages for differences in hospital wage levels by geographic area.

Authorizes appropriations through FY2010 for direct and indirect expenses associated with operating such programs.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) perinatal hospitals play an important role in providing quality care and ensuring the best possible outcomes for thousands of seriously ill newborns each year; and (2) medical training programs at perinatal hospitals give providers essential training in treating healthy mothers and babies as well as patients in neonatal intensive care units.

What's happening now August 5, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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