US Congress House Bill 5443 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on December 16 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-12-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Allows state Medicaid programs to cover certain home- and community-based services, self-directed personal assistance services, and home- and community-based attendant services that are provided in acute care hospitals. The bill specifies, among other criteria, that such services may not be duplicative of, or serve as a substitute for, necessary or obligatory hospital services.

Isaiah Baker and Margie Harris-Austin Act

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon [D-PA]	Rep. Tom Emmer [R-MN]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]
Sen. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]	Rep. James Hagedorn [R-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-12-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-12-16	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2019-12-16	House	Introduced in House

SB3220 (Related) 2020-01-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB3548 (Related) 2020-06-03 - Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
HB6379 (Related) 2020-03-23 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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.
HB748 (Related) 2020-07-23 - Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5443/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5443/BILLS-116hr5443ih.pdf