US Congress House Bill 3241 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on July 28 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-11-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2015 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to health benefits coverage requirements in order to implement a universal health care plan. The state universal health care plan must be at least as comprehensive and affordable as coverage under federal health programs and cover substantially all state residents. States may apply to waive requirements for: health insurance exchanges, plans sold on exchanges, and the program to support nonprofit insurance issuers; reduced cost-sharing for individuals meeting income criteria; health insurance premium subsidies, employer shared responsibility payments, and minimum essential coverage; health benefits under titles XI (General Provisions), XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act; federal employee health benefits; health benefits for members of the military; and health insurance under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must pay a state that assumes responsibility for health coverage currently provided under a federal health program the amount that would otherwise have been spent under the program. HHS, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Departments of the Treasury, Defense, and Labor must coordinate and consolidate this state waiver process with existing waiver processes to ensure consistency and avoid duplication of effort.

State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2015

Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]

Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-11-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2015-08-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2015-08-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-07-31	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-07-28	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-07-28	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2015-07-28	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2015-07-28	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-07-28	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2015-07-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
2015-07-28	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1147)
2015-07-28	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3241/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr3241/BILLS-114hr3241ih.pdf