US Congress Senate Bill 466 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Nullifies the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services guidance titled "State Relief and Empowerment Waivers," published on October 24, 2018. The guidance pertains to Section 1332 waivers (also known as State Innovation Waivers or State Relief and Empowerment Waivers), which allow states to forego certain requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to implement experimental plans for health care coverage, as long as the resulting coverage meets certain statutory criteria. The guidance, which supersedes earlier guidance from 2015, alters agency interpretation of how states may satisfy the statutory criteria for waiver approval. For example, the guidance (1) redefines acceptable coverage under such waivers to include short-term, limited-duration insurance and association health plans; (2) allows the comprehensiveness and affordability of coverage under such waivers to be assessed based on projected availability, rather than enrollment; and (3) allows the level of coverage to be assessed based on the effects over the entire course of the waiver, rather than per year.

Protecting Americans with Pre-existing Conditions Act of 2019

Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-13	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB986 (Same As) 2019-05-15 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 90.
HB1884 (Related) 2019-03-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HR357 (Similar To) 2019-05-09 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/466/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s466/BILLS-116s466is.pdf