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Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009

Introduced: November 19, 2009 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps

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Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Dec 1, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Nov 19, 2009

Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform

Nov 19, 2009

Referred to House Education and Labor

Nov 19, 2009

Referred to House Ways and Means

Nov 19, 2009

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Nov 19, 2009

Referred to House Energy and Commerce

Nov 19, 2009

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2824)

Nov 19, 2009

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2009 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) allow a higher payment to states for routine HIV/AIDS and STI (sexually transmitted infections recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) screening services; and (2) require coverage of low-income HIV/AIDS infected individuals.

Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adopt a broad policy for voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening for all Medicare beneficiaries who are 13 years of age or older.

Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to federally qualified health centers to provide voluntary HIV/AIDS and STI screening.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health plans to provide routine HIV/AIDS and STI screening.

Requires the Director of the CDC to: (1) track national HIV/AIDS and STI screening trends and the burdens of HIV/AIDS and STIs among people with disabilities; (2) make sex education materials that promote voluntary screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs accessible to the deaf and hearing loss community and to people with intellectual disabilities; (3) ensure that national screening guidelines for cervical cancer state that women who have sex with women should have the same guidelines as women who have sex only with men; and (4) improve information collection concerning the transmission, morbidity, and screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs in transgender communities.

What's happening now December 1, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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