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To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure appropriate care by certain 340B covered entities for victims of sexual assault, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 10, 2019 Introduced by: Griffith, H. Morgan Republican · Virginia See on congress.gov
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Jan 25, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 10, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jan 10, 2019
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires hospitals with emergency departments to be equipped with sexual assault forensic examiners as a condition of participation in the 340B drug pricing program (i.e., a program that allows entities to receive covered outpatient drugs at reduced prices from manufacturers).

Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services must designate the hospital as a facility in which a sexual assault forensic examiner is available or on call 24-7. Hospitals that do not receive this designation after one year must take action to become designated within the following year. They must also implement an interim policy that allows emergency department patients to choose to be transferred free of charge to already-designated facilities.

What's happening now January 25, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

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Carter, Earl L. "Buddy"
Georgia · Jan 10, 2019
WALDEN, GREG
· Jan 10, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 461: To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure appropriate care by certain 340B covered entities for victims of sexual assault, and for other purposes.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-461/
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"H.R. 461: To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure appropriate care by certain 340B covered entities for victims of sexual assault, and for other purposes.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-461/.
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H.R. 461, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-461/.
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[H.R. 461: To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure appropriate care by certain 340B covered entities for victims of sexual assault, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-461/)
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