H.R. 8137: Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
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H.R. 8137: Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
116th Congress · introduced 2020-08-28 · Health · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2020-08-28 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
Plain summary
Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020 This bill requires the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to include, in the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, relevant strategies to capture in electronic health records an individual's use of electronic cigarettes, vaping devices, or other smoking variants in the same manner as the use of traditional tobacco products is captured in such records. Currently, the collection of information about a patient's smoking status with respect to cigarettes or other traditional tobacco products is one of the measures used to determine meaningful use of electronic health records by health care providers.
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Official text
Accurate Reporting of Smoking Variants Act of 2020
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6] · 2 cosponsors
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Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN)
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- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr8137.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>
Record fed-us-cong116-hr8137 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116