S. 479: Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-03-01 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Where it came from: introduced 2017-03-01 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2017

Plain summary

Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2017 This bill waives Medicare coinsurance requirements with respect to colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of the code billed for a resulting diagnosis or procedure.

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Official text

Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2017

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · 61 cosponsors

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Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Jack Reed (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), John Boozman (R-AR), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Steve Daines (R-MT), James E. Risch (R-ID), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Todd Young (R-IN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Tina Smith (D-MN), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and 1 more.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s479.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>

Record fed-us-cong115-s479 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115