US Congress House Bill 4820 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 85-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

ASK Act Advancing Seniors and Kids Act This bill extends, and otherwise revises, various public health and social welfare programs. Specifically, the bill: permanently extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); extends by one year, but reduces by half, additional federal financial participation for CHIP; extends CHIP's qualifying-states option, express-lane eligibility option, and outreach and enrollment program; extends the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund, the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program; modifies Medicare payment rules and reporting requirements with respect to ground-ambulance services; permanently extends specialized Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for certain special-needs individuals; expands certain supplemental benefits under MA for chronically ill enrollees; extends the Medicare payment adjustment known as the "home-health rural add-on"; makes permanent or extends other specified programs and payment rules under Medicare; under Medicaid, extends certain health workforce demonstration projects as well as specified programs related to community health centers, diabetes, graduate medical education, family-to-family health-information centers, abstinence education, and personal-responsibility education; delays certain changes, under Medicaid, to disproportionate-share hospital allotments and to third-party liability provisions; extends the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and requires, under the program, continued demonstration of improvements in certain benchmark areas; establishes a grant program for the monitoring of representative payees under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program; otherwise revises provisions related to representative payment under SSI and OASDI; and with respect to the child-welfare system, modifies provisions related to information sharing and to overpayment liability.

ASK Act Advancing Seniors and Kids Act

Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]
Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]
Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]	Rep. Jimmy Gomez [D-CA]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Ruben Kihuen [D-NV]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]
Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]
Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2018-01-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2018-01-18	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2018-01-18	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2018-01-18	House	Introduced in House

HB1955 (Related) 2017-04-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB2959 (Related) 2017-06-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB3044 (Related) 2017-07-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB3168 (Related) 2017-12-21 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 353.
HB3729 (Related) 2017-12-21 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 356.
HB3926 (Related) 2017-10-06 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB4547 (Related) 2018-04-13 - Became Public Law No: 115-165.
SB872 (Related) 2017-04-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB1829 (Related) 2017-09-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB2597 (Related) 2018-12-10 - Held at the desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4820/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4820/BILLS-115hr4820ih.pdf