VIEW FROM THE HILL.

                            VIEW FROM THE HILL
Bill      Title
H.R. 202  Preserving Affordable Housing
            for Senior Citizens into
            the 21st Century Act
H.R. 2684 Departments of Veterans Affairs
            and Housing and Urban
            Development, and Independent
            Agencies Appropriations Act,
            2000
H.R. 3426 Medicare, Medicaid Balanced Budget
            Refinement Act of 1999
 S. 1142  Seniors' Access to Continuing Care
            Act
 S. 1459  Medicare Return To Home Act
H.R. 3004 Medicare Return To Home Act
 S. 1445  Patient Abuse Prevention Act
Bill      Description
H.R. 202  To restructure financing for assisted housing for
            senior citizens. Sponsor: Rep. Rick Lazio (R-N.Y.)
H.R. 2684 Making appropriations for said Departments, and for
            sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions,
            corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending
            September 30, 2000. Sponsor: Rep. James Walsh
            (R-N.Y.)
H.R. 3426 To make corrections and refinements in the Medicare,
            Medicaid, and State children's health insurance
            programs, as revised by the Balanced Budget Act of
            1997. Sponsor: Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.)
 S. 1142  To protect right of HMO member to receive continuing
            care at facility selected by that member (return-
            to-home). Sponsor: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
 S. 1459  To amend title XVIII of Social Security Act to protect
            right of a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in a
            Medicare+Choice plan to receive services at a SNF
            selected by that individual. Sponsor: Sen. Connie
            Mack (R-Fla.)
H.R. 3004 To permit a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in a
            Medicare+Choice plan to elect to receive covered SNF
            services at SNF in which beneficiary or spouse
            resides or which is part of CCRC in which the
            beneficiary resides. Sponsor: Rep. Sherrod Brown
            (D-Ohio)
 S. 1445  To prevent abuse of recipients of long-term care
            services under the Medicare and Medicaid programs,
            Sponsor: Sen Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.)
Bill      Status
H.R. 202  Passed by the House
H.R. 2684 Signed into law
            P.L. 106-74
H.R. 3426 Signed into law
            P.L. 106-113
 S. 1142  Introduced in House;
            referred to HELP
            Committe
 S. 1459  Introduced in
            Senate; referred
            to Finance
            Committe
H.R. 3004 Introduced in House;
            referred to Ways
            and Means and
            Commerce
            Committes
 S. 1445  Introduced in Senate;
            referred to Finance
            Committe
SOURCE: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HOMES AND
SERVICES FOR THE AGING