Trauma Care Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) increase (from 12 to 13) the number of members of the Advisory Council on Trauma Care Systems; (2) include on the Council an individual who has been a trauma patient at a designated trauma center, to be appointed for a four-year term; and (3) require that at least four (currently, 25 percent) of the members be knowledgeable concerning rural areas.
Requires the Council to meet not less than once and, if the Chair determines necessary, up to four times each year (currently, at the call of the Chair and not less than once each three months).
Includes among requirements for State plans (in order to receive allotments) coordination and cooperation among bordering States with respect to areas in which logical geographic groupings across State borders would be appropriate (currently, among States that share any standard metropolitan statistical area).
Authorizes appropriations.
Directs the General Accounting Office to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the duplication of Federal emergency medical services and trauma activities.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 103-122.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 103-122.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 66.
Mr. Waxman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3478-3479)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 92.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S8269)
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1113.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1113 with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1113 with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Mr. Dingell asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and request a conference. (consideration: CR H8835)
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and request a conference Agreed to without objection.
The Speaker appointed conferees: Dingell, Waxman, Synar, Moorhead, and Bliley.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House requests a conference.
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