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HR 8137 116th Congress House Health Computers and information technology Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Health information and medical records

Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

Introduced: August 28, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020

This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records.

Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.


What's happening now August 28, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
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All 2 Democratic 2
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Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Sep 14, 2020
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Krishnamoorthi, Raja
Illinois · Aug 28, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8137: Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8137/
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"H.R. 8137: Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8137/.
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H.R. 8137, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8137/.
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