HR 2216
117th Congress
House
Health
Cancer
Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Immunology and vaccination
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Racial and ethnic relations
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health
Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women’s Health Act of 2021
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 29, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 26, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 26, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women's Health Act of 2021
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a series of programs to increase access to cancer screenings for women.
These programs include demonstration projects to
- train certain health care providers to screen for breast and cervical cancer, and
- increase co-testing of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer among populations that have disproportionate rates of cervical cancer.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
2