H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act
- Sponsor:
- John Dingell
- Summary:
- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
- Status:
- The bill was voted on in the House on November 8, 2009
- Amendments:
- 2 proposed amendments. accepted. 2 rejected. View amendments
PASSED on November 8, 2009.
1/2 required to pass
voted YES: 220 voted NO: 215
Affordable Health Care for America Act
H.R. 3962 — 111th Congress (2009–2010)
- Keywords
- Health Care, House Health Care Reform Bill
- Summary
- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
- Learn More
- at OpenCongress
- Title
- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
- Other Titles
- Affordable Health Care for America Act
- Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2009
- Affordable Health Care for America Act
- Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2009
- Sponsor
- John Dingell
- Co-Sponsors
- Subjects
- Health
- Abortion
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Adoption and foster care
- Adult day care
- Advisory bodies
- Aging
- Allied health services
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Business ethics
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Competition and antitrust
- Comprehensive health care
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Consumer affairs
- Criminal justice information and records
- Dental care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employment and training programs
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family planning and birth control
- Family relationships
- Food industry and services
- Food supply, safety, and labeling
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government investigations
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government trust funds
- HIV-AIDS
- Hawaii
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
- Home and outpatient care
- Homeland security
- Hospital care
- Immigrant health and welfare
- Immunology
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax exclusion
- Income tax rates
- Indian social and development programs
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Insurance industry and regulation
- Intellectual property
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Intergovernmental relations
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Marketing and advertising
- Marshall Islands
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Members of Congress
- Mental health
- Micronesia
- Military medicine
- Minority health
- Neurological disorders
- Nursing
- Nutrition and diet
- Oceania
- Palau
- Personnel records
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Prescription drugs
- Public contracts and procurement
- Right of privacy
- Rural conditions and development
- Sales and excise taxes
- Sex and reproductive health
- Small business
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- State and local government operations
- Student aid and college costs
- Surgery and anesthesia
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- User charges and fees
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Veterans' medical care
- Women's health
- Related Bills
- H.Res. 903 (111th) : Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 3962) to Provide Affordable, Quality Health Care for All Americans and Reduce the Growth in Health Care Spending, and for Other Purposes, and Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 3961) to Amend Title
- H.Res. 903 (111th) : Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 3962) to Provide Affordable, Quality Health Care for All Americans and Reduce the Growth in Health Care Spending, and for Other Purposes, and Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 3961) to Amend Title
- Major Actions
Introduced 10/29/2009 Referred to Committee Amendments (2 proposed) Passed House 11/08/2009 - Bill History
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Chamber Motion Date Result select this vote House Amendment 1 to H.R. 3962 11/08/2009 This amendment PASSED the House 240 voted YES 194 voted NO 0 voted present/not votingselect this vote House Amendment 2 to H.R. 3962 11/08/2009 This amendment DID NOT PASS the House 176 voted YES 258 voted NO 0 voted present/not votingselect this vote House On Motion to Recommit with Instructions: H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act 11/08/2009 This motion DID NOT PASS the House 187 voted YES 247 voted NO 0 voted present/not votingcurrently selected House On Passage - House - H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act 11/08/2009 This bill PASSED the House 220 voted YES 215 voted NO 0 voted present/not votingAction Date Description Introduced 10/29/2009 10/29/2009 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, the Budget, Rules, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 10/29/2009 Referred to House Energy and Commerce 10/29/2009 Referred to House Education and Labor 10/29/2009 Referred to House Ways and Means 10/29/2009 Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform 10/29/2009 Referred to House Budget 10/29/2009 Referred to House Rules 10/29/2009 Referred to House Natural Resources 10/29/2009 Referred to House Judiciary 11/07/2009 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 903 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3962 and H.R. 3961 with 4 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. 11/07/2009 Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged. 11/07/2009 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 903. 11/07/2009 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3962 and H.R. 3961 with 4 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. 11/07/2009 DEBATE - The House proceeded with four hours of debate on H.R. 3962. 11/08/2009 DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 903, the House proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Stupak amendment. 11/08/2009 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Stupak. 11/08/2009 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Stupak amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Stupak demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day. 11/08/2009 DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 903, the House proceeded with 1 hour of debate on the Boehner amendment in the nature of a substitute. 11/08/2009 Amendment (A002) in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. Boehner. 11/08/2009 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Boehner amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Camp (MI) demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day. 11/08/2009 UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed. select this vote Vote 11/08/2009 Amendment 1 to H.R. 3962 11/08/2009 On ordering the previous question Agreed to by voice vote. 11/08/2009 Mr. Cantor moved to recommit with instructions to Energy and Commerce. 11/08/2009 DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Cantor motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to insert a new title with the heading "Seniors Protection and Medicare Regional Payment Equity Fund". select this vote Vote 11/08/2009 Amendment 2 to H.R. 3962 11/08/2009 The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. select this vote Vote 11/08/2009 On Motion to Recommit with Instructions: H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act currently selected House Vote on Passage 11/08/2009 On Passage - House - H.R. 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act 11/10/2009 Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. Put on a legislative calendar 11/16/2009 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 210. Number Sponsor Date Offered Status select this vote H. Amdt. 509 Stupak, Bart [D-MI1] November 7, 2009 Offered on November 6, 2009. Amendment codifies the Hyde Amendment in H.R. 3962; prohibits federal funds for abortion services in the public option and prohibits individuals who receive affordability credits from purchasing a plan that provides elective abortions. Amendment does allow individuals, who receive affordability credits or not, to separately purchase with their own funds, plans that cover elective abortions. Finally, the amendment clarifies that private plans may still offer elective abortions.
select this vote H. Amdt. 510 Boehner, John [R-OH8] November 7, 2009 Offered on November 6, 2009. Amendment in the nature of a substitute sought to create Universal Access Programs that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs; sought to prevent insurers from unjustly canceling a policy or instituting annual or lifetime spending caps; sought to put in place medical liability reforms and give small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices; sought to prohibit all Federal funds, whether they are authorized funds or appropriated funds, from being used to pay for abortion; and sought to create new incentives to save for future and long-term care needs by allowing qualified participants to use HSAs to pay premiums.
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