SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 2/1/2024
Actions
- 2024-02-01Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 317.
- 2024-02-01Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2024-02-01Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2023-12-12Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2023-06-07Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2023-06-07Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-06-07 (00)
Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services for Cancer Act of 2023 or the SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2023
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and makes changes to the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program provides funding to states for breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for individuals who have low incomes, are uninsured, or otherwise lack access to such services.
Cosponsors (13)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Katie Britt (R-AL)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
Subjects
- Cancer
- Health care coverage and access
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Women's health
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