H.R. 3534: USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019
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H.R. 3534: USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019
116th Congress · introduced 2019-06-27 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2019-06-27 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- 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
USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019
Plain summary
USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019 This bill imposes additional requirements on, and otherwise revises provisions related to, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force must (1) develop and publish research plans that include specified components to guide its review of scientific evidence relating to the effectiveness of preventive services; (2) publish in the Federal Register a request for comments on research plans, evidence reports, and recommendations; and (3) convene a preventive services stakeholders board to provide feedback and recommend preventive services and scientific evidence for the task force to review. The bill also provides statutory authority for the task force's system for grading preventive care (Grades A, B, C, and D and a Grade I for insufficient information). In addition, the bill revises the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify Medicare coverage of certain preventive services when the modification is based on a task force recommendation. Specifically, the CMS may modify coverage based on a task force grade or recommendation only if it was developed or updated in accordance with this bill and if the CMS agrees with it after consulting with other agencies and stakeholder groups. Certain Medicare quality measures related to a recommendation of the task force may similarly only be applied under these circumstances.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1] · 13 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Judy Chu (D-CA), Neal P. Dunn (R-FL), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Andy Harris (R-MD), André Carson (D-IN), Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
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- Bill
- A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
- Federal Register
- The official daily publication of the U.S. government for agency rules, proposed rules, public notices and presidential documents.
- Statute
- A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr3534.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>
Record fed-us-cong116-hr3534 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116