United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 963 (109th)
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005
Introduced
17 February 2005
Last action
14 March 2005 · Referred
Status
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sponsors
Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15], Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12], Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10], Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7], Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20], Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3], Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23], Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16], Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40], Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large], Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9], Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41], Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2], Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3], Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Subjects
Healthcare
Source updated
15 August 2025
Summary
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to provide training in pediatric palliative care and related services. Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to implement or expand pediatric palliative care programs for children with life-threatening conditions. Authorizes the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the number of physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and appropriate allied health professionals and specialists with pediatric palliative clinical training and research experience. Allows the Secretary to award grants to enhance pediatric palliative care and care for children with life-threatening conditions in general pediatric or family practice residency training programs through the development of model programs. Requires the Director to provide translational research grants to fund research in pediatric pain and symptom management that will utilize existing NIH facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish Medicare and private sector pediatric palliative care demonstration projects.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
17 February 2005
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
17 February 2005
Introduced
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Source: IntroReferral
17 February 2005
Introduced
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Source: IntroReferral
17 February 2005
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
3 March 2005
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Source: Committee
14 March 2005
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Source: Committee
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Introduced in House · 17 February 2005 · Download file
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in House (text)
This file cannot be previewed here. Use View or Download.
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 17 February 2005
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 17 February 2005
ViewDownloadOpen at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 17 February 2005
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
Sponsors
- Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12] · D · Sponsor
- Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] · D · Cosponsor
- Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17] · D · Cosponsor
- · hsif00 · Standing
- · hswm00 · Standing
Related records
- related to ← Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/963
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/963
- us · 109-hr-963 · source updated 15 August 2025