To protect the interests of each resident of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded in class…

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 111th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

BFD FrankSponsor

90 cosponsors · 39 D, 51 R

SCD Cohen DDR Dreier BGR Goodlatte PKD Kanjorski DLR Lungren JMD Moran RPR Paul TPR Poe DWD Wasserman Schultz MCD Capuano FWR Wolf JBD Barrow JCR Culberson LGD Gutiérrez JOD Olver JLD Larson CBR Boustany JMD McGovern CGD Gonzalez PSD Stark PRR Roskam JBR Boozman JCR Cao JLD Lewis LWD Woolsey POR Olson CSR Smith NTD Tsongas JBR Biggert BRD Rush SFD Farr SJD Jackson Lee BCR Cassidy BGR Guthrie GMR Miller RND Neal MQD Quigley MBR Burgess PGR Gingrey SJR Johnson GMD Moore DNR Nunes AGD Green SKR King WCD Clay RCD Carnahan JFR Fleming PSR Sessions KMR Marchant CMD Melancon EPR Paulsen RAR Alexander RNR Neugebauer BFD Filner SSR Scalise MBD Berry MMR McCaul EMD Massa CMR McMorris Rodgers DHR Heller DMR Manzullo MRD Ross JHR Hensarling BLR Luetkemeyer GBR Brown-Waite TRR Rooney LSD Slaughter JFR Forbes PBR Broun BFD Foster HJD Johnson LSD Sánchez HCR Coble DRR Rohrabacher JSD Speier DPD Payne MBR Blackburn LSR Smith AWD Weiner KCR Calvert LWR Westmoreland HRR Rogers JCR Carter SGR Graves WHR Herger CRD Rodriguez KCR Conaway WAR Akin GGD Green JHD Himes

9 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Prohibits any entity that receives funds from the federal government from using them to file a class action lawsuit against an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded on behalf of any facility resident unless the resident (or the resident's legal representative), after receiving notice of the proposed class action lawsuit, has the opportunity…