SAFE Act has not moved since its introduction on Feb 10, 2025, with cosponsors from both parties
IntroducedFeb 10, 2025
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Passed one chamber—
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 45 words.
Stopping Addiction and Falls for the Elderly Act or the SAFE Act This bill incorporates risk assessments and prevention services for falls into annual wellness visits and initial preventive physical exams under Medicare, as well as associated services provided by physical therapists and occupational therapists.
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 0 of 91 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 444 words
- Subjects
- AgingCongressional oversightHealth promotion and preventive careLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careMedicare
- Latest action
- Feb 10, 2025: 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 2612 SAFE Act R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]