S. 465 - Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007
Medicine. 110th Congress (2007-2008) View bill details
- Sponsor:
- Bill Nelson
- Summary:
- Status:
- The bill has been introduced.
There have been no votes on this bill.
Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007
S. 465 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)
- Summary
- A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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- Title
- A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.
- Other Titles
- Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007
- Sponsor
- Bill Nelson
- Co-Sponsors
- Subjects
- Medicine
- Aged
- Budgets
- Civil liberties
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Federal preemption
- Government information
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health maintenance organizations
- Health policy
- Law
- Living wills
- Managed care
- Medicaid
- Medical care
- Medicare
- Pain
- Physical examinations
- Physicians
- Power of attorney
- Preventive medicine
- Right of privacy
- Right to die
- State and local government
- State laws
- Technology
- Telecommunication
- Telephone
- Terminal care
- Welfare
- Related Bills
- Major Actions
Introduced 1/31/2007 Referred to Committee - Bill History
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There have been no votes on this bill.
Action Date Description Introduced 1/31/2007 1/31/2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Number Sponsor Date Offered Status
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