Bill > HR4820

Introduced Session

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.

Committee Categories

Donald McEachin (D)*,  Alma Adams (D),  Nanette Barragán (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Lisa Blunt Rochester (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Brendan Boyle (D),  Tony Cárdenas (D),  André Carson (D),  Kathy Castor (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Lacy Clay (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Joe Courtney (D),  Suzan DelBene (D),  Val Demings (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Debbie Dingell (D),  Keith Ellison (D),  Eliot Engel (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Jimmy Gomez (D),  Al Green (D),  Gene Green (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Colleen Hanabusa (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Denny Heck (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Pramila Jayapal (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Bill Keating (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Ruben Kihuen (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Ann Kuster (D),  James Langevin (D),  John Larson (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  David Loebsack (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Nita Lowey (D),  Sean Maloney (D),  Doris Matsui (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Jerry McNerney (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Tom O'Halleran (D),  Frank Pallone (D),  Jimmy Panetta (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Collin Peterson (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Cedric Richmond (D),  Jacky Rosen (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  Raul Ruiz (D),  Dutch Ruppersberger (D),  Tim Ryan (D),  Kilili Sablan (D),  John Sarbanes (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Kurt Schrader (D),  Bobby Scott (D),  José Serrano (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Jackie Speier (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Bennie Thompson (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  Paul Tonko (D),  Marc Veasey (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D),  Peter Welch (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (on 01/23/2018)

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