Senate Legislation: Social Security

S. 355 - Sen. Pete Domenici [R-NM]
A bill to establish a National Commission on Entitlement Solvency.

S. 458 - Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D-AR]
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the treatment of certain physician pathology services under the Medicare program.

S. 464 - Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]
A bill to amend title XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the requirements regarding advance directives in order to ensure that an individual's health care decisions are complied with, and for other purposes.

S. 465 - Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
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.

S. 466 - Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of an end-of-life planning consultation as part of an initial preventive physical examination under the Medicare program.