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'A bill to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.'

 

  

Original Sponsor:
Harry Reid (D-NV)

 

Cosponsor(s):

Mark Begich (D-AK)

Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)

Richard Durbin (D-IL)

Edward Kennedy (D-MA)

John Kerry (D-MA)

Carl Levin (D-MI)

Debbie Stabinow (D-MI)

Amy Klobucher(D-MN)

Claire McCaskill (D-MO)

Harry Reid (D-NV)

Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)

Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

Charles Schumer (D-NY)

Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

Robert Casey (D-PA)

 Bill Status:
01/06/2009: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S44)
01/07/2009: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.

Committee Activity:
- - NONE - -		  

 

About This Legislation:

  • Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to invest in the infrastructure necessary to allow for and promote the electronic exchange and use of health information for each individual in the United States, consistent with the goals outlined in the Strategic Plan developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
  • Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or the HITECH Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
  • Sets forth provisions governing the development and adoption of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information.
  • Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to establish incentive payments for certain eligible physicians and hospitals that adopt and use certified electronic health record (EHR) technology meaningfully, beginning in FY2011.
  • Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to establish incentive payments to encourage the adoption and use by Medicaid providers of qualified electronic health records.
  • Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to enhance the meaningful use of certified electronic health records in nursing facilities.
  • Sets forth provisions governing the privacy and security of health information, including requiring notifications for any breach of protected health information.

 

S 1 PCS

 

Calendar No. 1

 

111th CONGRESS

 

1st Session

S. 1
 

To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
 

 

 

January 6, 2009

 

Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. KERRY, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. BEGICH, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. CASEY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Ms. STABENOW, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. SCHUMER, and Mr. BROWN) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

 

 

January 7, 2009

 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

A BILL
 

To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.

 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 

    This Act may be cited as the `American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009'.

 

SEC. 2. JOB CREATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS.

 

    It is the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and the President should sign, legislation to create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that--

 

      (1) modernize the nation's infrastructure;

 

      (2) enhance America's energy independence;

 

      (3) expand educational opportunities;

 

      (4) preserve and improve affordable health care;

 

      (5) provide tax relief; and

 

      (6) protect those in greatest need.

Calendar No. 1

 

111th CONGRESS

 

1st Session

S. 1
 

A BILL
 

To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America's middle class through measures that modernize the nation's infrastructure, enhance America's energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need, and for other purposes.

 

 

January 7, 2009

 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar
 

     

    Updated: 09 Feb 2009
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