House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to carve out from payments to Medicare+Choice organizations amounts attributable to disproportionate share hospital payments and pay such amounts directly to those disproportionate share hospitals in which their enrollees receive care.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 22, 1997
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Latest action: Oct 28, 1997 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2099)
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
54 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 46 Democrats
6 of 54 cosponsors (11%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Robert Borski (D-PA), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), George Brown (D-CA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Donna Christensen (D-VI), William Coyne (D-PA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Phil English (R-PA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Jon Fox (R-PA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), Virgil Goode (R-VA), Earl Hilliard (D-AL), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Tim Holden (D-PA), William Jenkins (R-TN), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), Peter King (R-NY), Ron Klink (D-PA), John LaFalce (D-NY), John Lewis (D-GA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 24 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel.
- H.R. 29 (105th) To designate the Federal building located at 290 Broadway in New York, New York, as the "Ronald H. Brown Federal Building".
- H.Res. 183 (105th) Honoring the life of Betty Shabazz.
- H.R. 3320 (105th) Public School Modernization Act of 1998
- H.R. 3207 (105th) To amend the Social Security Act to establish the Save Social Security First Reserve Fund into which the Secretary of the Treasury shall…
- H.R. 4597 (105th) Save Social Security and Taxpayer Relief Act of 1998
- H.R. 2428 (105th) Internal Revenue Service Improvement Act of 1997
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.