A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and title III of the Public Health Service Act to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decisionmaking so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes.

Overview Sponsor: Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]show cosponsors (10) Cosponsors: Jeff Bingaman [D-NM] Susan Collins [R-ME] Richard Durbin [D-IL] John Isakson [R-GA] Edward Kennedy [D-MA] Blanche Lincoln [D-AR] Richard Lugar [R-IN] John Rockefeller [D-WV] Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] Ron Wyden [D-OR] Text: Summary | Full Text Status: Introduced Jan 31, 2007 Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments Reported by Committee (did not occur) Senate Vote (did not occur) House Vote (did not occur) Signed by President (did not occur) This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session. Last Action: Jan 31, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

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|date=Jan 31, 2007
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|quote=Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007
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