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Main Subject: Health

State Health Care Premium Reduction Act

This bill establishes the Improve Health Insurance Affordability Fund. States must use allocated funds to (1) issue reinsurance payments to health insurers (i.e., reimbursements to protect insurers against exceedingly high claims) for individual health insurance coverage, or (2) provide other assistance to reduce out-of-pocket costs (e.g., copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles) for qualified health plans offered in the individual market.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must distribute funding to states in accordance with a specified methodology.

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Senate Actions

Calendars
Sep. 08 2020	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 523.
Aug. 13 2020	Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

IntroReferral
Jun. 30 2020	Received in the Senate.

House floor actions Actions

Floor

Jun. 29
2020

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 234 - 179 (Roll no. 124). (text: CR H2599-2614)
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 187 - 223 (Roll no. 123).
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2664-2665)
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions, the Chair put the question on the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Walden demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further consideration on the motion to recommit until a time to be announced.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Walden motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to prevent the bill from taking effect unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies that no provision of the bill would adversely affect research related to any drug intended to treat or prevent the virus that causes COVID-19.
Mr. Walden moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. (text: CR H2642-2643)
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with three hours of debate on H.R. 1425.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1425, H.R. 5332, H.R. 7120, H.R. 7301 and H.J. Res. 90. The resolution provides that the provisions of section 125(c) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act shall not apply during the remainder of the 116th Congress and the resolution amends H.Res. 967, agreed to on May 15, 2020.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1017. (consideration: CR H2599-2644)

Jun. 24
2020

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1017 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1425, H.R. 5332, H.R. 7120, H.R. 7301 and H.J. Res. 90. The resolution provides that the provisions of section 125(c) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act shall not apply during the remainder of the 116th Congress and the resolution amends H.Res. 967, agreed to on May 15, 2020.

Calendars
Mar. 09 2020	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 334.

Committee
Mar. 09 2020	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-414.

Library of Congress Actions

Floor
Jun. 29 2020	Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 234 - 179 (Roll no. 124).

Committee
Mar. 09 2020	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-414.

House bill HR1425-116

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act

House bill HR1425-116

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act

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