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H.R. 2906: Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

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H.R. 2906: Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-15 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-15 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

Plain summary

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including: (1) whether the health professional shortage area designation under the National Health Service Corps program accurately assesses adequacy of access and whether another measure would be more accurate, and (2) potential methodologies for designating general surgery shortage areas. HHS must publish data comparing the availability and need of general surgery services in urban, suburban, and rural areas. HHS may establish a methodology for designating general surgery shortage areas and make such designations. HHS must publish a list of general surgery shortage areas.

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Official text

Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8] · 21 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ami Bera (D-CA), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Jared Huffman (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2906 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115