To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove special financial limitations that apply to Puerto Rico and certain other territories under the Medicaid Program with respect to medical assistance for Medicare cost-sharing and for veterans.

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

32 cosponsors — 31 Democrats, 1 independent

0 of 32 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.

Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Robert Brady (D-PA), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Bob Filner (D-CA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), Charles Gonzalez (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Ron Klink (D-PA), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), James McGovern (D-MA), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Patsy Mink (D-HI), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ed Pastor (D-AZ), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Robert Underwood (D-GU) and 2 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Carlos Romero-Barcelo.

• H.R. 560 (106th) To designate the Federal building located at 300 Recinto Sur Street in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the "Jose V. Toledo United States…
• H.R. 239 (106th) John Glenn Congressional Gold Medal Act
• H.R. 2712 (106th) Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Parity Act of 1999
• H.R. 806 (106th) To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to increase the allotments for territories under the State Children's Health Insurance…
• H.R. 4668 (106th) Puerto Rico Land and Water Conservation Act of 2000
• H.R. 5650 (106th) To declare certain Federal lands in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as excess, and for other purposes.

Sponsor’s state and district

Puerto Rico in Congress · PR at-large district