119th Congress Health
S. 1227: ABC Act
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Summary
This bill requires federal agencies to review and modify the administrative processes related to Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Social Security programs in order to streamline these processes for family caregivers.
Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) must review processes related to eligibility determinations, applications, forms, and communications for these programs and identify ways to simplify and streamline these processes for family caregivers (e.g., reducing the need for family caregivers to submit the same information for multiple programs). The CMS and SSA must solicit input from family caregivers and state and regional organizations, implement any identified improvements, and report on these efforts to Congress.
In addition, the CMS must issue a letter to state Medicaid and CHIP programs that encourages states to conduct a similar review and that provides potential improvements.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Tammy Baldwin D-WIOriginal
- Richard Blumenthal D-CTOriginal
- Katie Britt R-ALOriginal
- Shelley Capito R-WVOriginal
- Bill Cassidy R-LAOriginal
- Christopher Coons D-DEOriginal
- John Hickenlooper D-COOriginal
- Mazie Hirono D-HIOriginal
- Cindy Hyde-Smith R-MSOriginal
- Amy Klobuchar D-MNOriginal
- Mark Kelly D-AZOriginal
- Cynthia Lummis R-WYOriginal
- Mike Rounds R-SDOriginal
- Rick Scott R-FLOriginal
- Eric Schmitt R-MOOriginal
- Thom Tillis R-NCOriginal
- Sheldon Whitehouse D-RIOriginal
- Tammy Duckworth D-IL
- John Boozman R-AR
- Ben Luján D-NM
- Pete Ricketts R-NE
- Susan Collins R-ME
- Catherine Cortez Masto D-NV
- Andy Kim D-NJ
- Lisa Murkowski R-AK
- Kirsten Gillibrand D-NY
Who scored on this bill
- 1Edward Markey SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reached a cosponsor milestone3 events+12
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Edward Markey.
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- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.