US Congress House Bill 1549

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April 24 2013 - Rule H. Res. 175 passed House.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Helping Sick Americans Now Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to transfer from the Prevention and Public Health Fund any unobligated funds which are attributable to FY2013 and any funds that would otherwise be made available to the Fund for FY2014-FY2016 to a Department of Health and Human Services account to carry out the temporary high risk health insurance pool program (a program to provide health insurance coverage to eligible individuals with a preexisting condition). Requires such funds to be available for obligation on the date of enactment of this Act and to remain available through December 31, 2013. Eliminates the eligibility requirement for the temporary high risk pool which prohibits an individual from having creditable coverage (health coverage) for six months before applying for coverage through the pool. Requires the Secretary to administer the temporary high risk pool in accordance with current regulations governing the operation of the pool, except as necessary to reflect amendments made by this Act.

Helping Sick Americans Now Act

Rep Pitts, Joseph R.	Rep Blackburn, Marsha	Rep Burgess, Michael C.	Rep Cassidy, Bill
Rep Ellmers, Renee L.	Rep Hall, Ralph M.	Rep Harper, Gregg	Rep Johnson, Bill
Rep Lance, Leonard	Rep Latta, Robert E.	Rep Long, Billy	Rep McKinley, David B.
Rep Sessions, Pete	Rep Terry, Lee	Rep Wagner, Ann	Rep Walden, Greg
Rep Whitfield, Ed

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-24	House	Rule H. Res. 175 passed House.
2013-04-23	House	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 175 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1549 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
2013-04-19	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 28.
2013-04-19	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 113-45.
2013-04-17	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 20.
2013-04-17	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2013-04-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-04-15	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

HR175 (Related) 2013-04-24 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN01549:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1549ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1549ih.pdf
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1549rh/pdf/BILLS-113hr1549rh.pdf