HOUSE 2216117th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women’s Health Act of 2021
- Last Action
- 3/29/2021
Actions
- 2021-03-29Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2021-03-26Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- 2021-03-26Introduced in House
- 2021-03-26Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2021-03-26 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (20)
- Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- DANNY DAVIS (D-IL)
- Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL)
- Jahana Hayes (D-CT)
- Brian Higgins (D-NY)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)
- Henry Johnson (D-GA)
- Al Lawson (D-FL)
- CAROLYN MALONEY (D-NY)
- BETTY MCCOLLUM (D-MN)
- JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
- Kathleen Rice (D-NY)
Subjects
- 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
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