H.R. 987 - 116th Congress (2019-2020) - Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct outreach and educational activities regarding federally-facilitated exchanges (i.e., health insurance exchanges that are established and operated within states by HHS). The activities must inform potential enrollees of the availability of coverage and related financial assistance under the exchanges and must be provided in culturally and linguistically appropriate formats.

Text (4)

Referred in Senate

May 20, 2019

Engrossed in House

May 16, 2019

Reported in House

May 10, 2019

Introduced in House

February 6, 2019

Amendments (26)

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 245

An amendment numbered 27 printed in House Report 116-61 to ensure that state healthcare Exchanges outreach activities are also targeted towards veteran populations.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 244

An amendment numbered 26 printed in House Report 116-61 to ensure rural areas are included in navigator outreach.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 243

An amendment numbered 24 printed in House Report 116-61 to add areas with high concentrations of unemployment to the list where such outreach and educational activities shall be provided.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 242

An amendment numbered 23 printed in House Report 116-61 to add a new subsection (b): Promote Transparency and Accountability in the Administration's Expenditures of Exchange User Fees, which requires HHS to submit an annual report to Congress that includes a detailed breakdown of the Department's spending on outreach and enrollment, navigators, maintenance of Healthcare.gov, and operation of the Healthcare.gov call centers.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 241

An amendment numbered 22 printed in House Report 116-61 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to set annual enrollment targets for the Exchanges for the plan year 2020 and each subsequent plan year.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 240

Amendment includes findings that the final rule on short-term, limited duration insurance weakens protections for the millions of Americans living with preexisting health conditions, including children with complex medical needs and disabilities and their families.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 239

An amendment numbered 20 printed in House Report 116-61 to require Navigators to assist vulnerable populations including individuals with limited English proficiency and chronic illnesses.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 238

An amendment numbered 19 printed in House Report 166-61 to clarify the ability of Navigators to provide referrals to community-based organizations that address social needs related to health outcomes.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 237

An amendment numbered 18 printed in House Report 116-61 to add that the Secretary shall implement outreach and educational activities in areas with high health disparities.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 236

An amendment numbered 17 printed in House Report 116-61 to add a duty requiring navigators to provide information in plain language regarding essential health benefits and consumer protections under the mental health and substance use disorder benefits parity law.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 235

An amendment numbered 16 printed in House Report 116-61 to require a GAO report to determine whether the Department of Health and Human Services has taken appropriate steps to ensure that routine maintenance to the Healthcare.gov website is minimally disruptive to consumers.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 234

An amendment numbered 15 printed in House Report 116-61 to ask the GAO to conduct a cost benefit analysis of the establishment of State-administered health insurance plans for states that may want to offer a public option in their health insurance exchanges; the report would be due to Congress no later than one year after enactment.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 233

An amendment numbered 14 printed in House Report 116-61 to establish the deadline by which States may apply for federal assistance to establish state-based marketplaces by one year to December 31, 2023; extending the date by which the State Exchanges must be self-sustaining by one year to January 1, 2025.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 232

An amendment numbered 13 printed in House Report 116-61 to require Navigators to receive training on how to assist consumers with Medicaid and CHIP enrollment.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 231

An amendment numbered 12 printed in House Report 116-61 to require HHS to submit to Congress a report on the extent to which increases in the prices of commonly prescribed drugs have caused individuals with health insurance to forego needed treatment.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 230

An amendment numbered 11 printed in House Report 116-61 to require GAO to study the effect of the administration's cuts to ACA outreach and the Navigator Program on health insurance enrollment and the cost of coverage.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 229

An amendment numbered 10 printed in House Report 116-61 to require the HHS Secretary to issue biweekly public reports during the annual open enrollment period on the performance of the federal exchange and the Small Business Health Options Program exchange. Each report will include a summary of information on the open enrollment season including the number of website visits, accounts created, calls to the call center, number of people who enroll in a plan and what enrollment path they took, e.g., website, broker, or call center.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 228

An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 116-61 to provide pharmacy school outreach by directing the Labor HHS and Education Secretaries to do outreach to institutions of higher education as it relates to the use and availability of generic drugs.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 227

An amendment numbered 8 printed in House Report 116-61 to amend the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) navigator program to authorize $25,000,000 out of amounts collected by user fees for State-Based Exchanges. The amendment ensures that no state shall receive a grant that is less than $1,000,000.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 226

An amendment numbered 7 printed in House Report 116-61 to state the sense of Congress that the Secretary of HHS should not take any action to prohibit or restrict "silver loading".

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 225

Amendment provides opioid specific education and training to the Navigators and the Certified Application Counselors (CACs) that ensures they can best educate individuals on the marketplace plans specifically for opioid health care treatment.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 224

An amendment numbered 5 printed in House Report 116-61 to Commission a study by the National Academy of Medicine into the amount of federal funding and research used in the development of drugs by pharmaceutical companies, and to put measures in place to curb excessive drug costs.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 223

An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 116-61 to require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to release all aggregated studies and data sets created on or after January 1, 2014 related to marketing and outreach for the Affordable Care Acts individual marketplace.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 222

An amendment numbered 3 printed in House Report 116-61 to prohibit the Secretary of HHS from ending autoenrollment.

Agreed To

May 16, 2019

Not Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 221

Amendment sought to strike title II, Health Insurance Market Stabilization.

Active

May 16, 2019

Agreed to in House

Sponsorship

House Amendment 220

An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 116-61 to clarify communication requirements for eligible product developers and license holders regarding requests, offers, and delivery of product samples.

Agreed To

Actions (61)

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05/20/2019

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

05/16/2019

The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 987.

05/16/2019

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

05/16/2019

On passage Passed by recorded vote: 234 - 183 (Roll no. 214).

05/16/2019

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 234 - 183 (Roll no. 214).

05/16/2019

On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 188 - 228 (Roll no. 213).

05/16/2019

The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.

05/16/2019

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 strike title I and insert new text.

05/16/2019

Mr. Walden moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. (text: CR H3904-3908)

05/16/2019

The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

05/16/2019

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

05/16/2019

The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 987.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Cunningham amendment No. 27.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Horn amendment No. 26.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Cox (CA) amendment No. 24.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Cox (CA) amendment No. 23.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Pappas amendment No. 22.

05/16/2019

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Wexton amendment, the Chair put the question on the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Wexton demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on agreeing to the amendment until a time to be announced.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Wexton amendment No. 21.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Escobar amendment No. 20, as modified.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gomez amendment No. 19.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Brown (MD) amendment No. 18.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Deutch amendment No. 17, as modified.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lipinski amendment No. 16.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lynch amendment No. 15.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lynch amendment No. 14.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Johnson (TX) amendment No. 13.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Waters amendment No. 12.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Morelle amendment No. 11.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scanlon amendment No. 10.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McBath amendment No. 9.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hayes amendment No. 8.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Shalala amendment No. 7.

05/16/2019

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Harder amendment, the Chair put the question on the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Harder demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on agreeing to the amendment until a time to be announced.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Harder amendment No. 6.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the DeSaulnier amendment No. 5.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Blunt Rochester amendment No. 4.

05/16/2019

The Committee of the Whole continued with further debate on the Welch amendment No. 3.

05/16/2019

The Committee resumed its sitting.

05/16/2019

The Committee rose informally to receive a message.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Welch amendment No. 3.

05/16/2019

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the McKinley amendment, the Chair put the question on the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. McKinley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on agreeing to the amendment until a time to be announced.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McKinley amendment No. 2.

05/16/2019

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 377, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Pallone amendment No. 1.

05/16/2019

GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with ninety minutes of general debate on H.R. 987.

05/16/2019

The Speaker designated the Honorable James R. Langevin to act as Chairman of the Committee.

05/16/2019

House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 377 and Rule XVIII.

05/16/2019

Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5, H.R. 312 and H.R. 987. The resolution provides for 90 minutes of debate on H.R. 5, under a closed rule. Section 2 of the resolution provides for 60 minutes of debate on H.R. 312, under a closed rule and section 3 provides 90 minutes of debate on H.R. 987, under a structured rule.

05/16/2019

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 377. (consideration: CR H3853-3904, H3910-3911; text: CR H3868-3873)

05/15/2019

Rule H. Res. 377 passed House.

05/14/2019

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 377 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5, H.R. 312 and H.R. 987. The resolution provides for 90 minutes of debate on H.R. 5, under a closed rule. Section 2 of the resolution provides for 60 minutes of debate on H.R. 312, under a closed rule and section 3 provides 90 minutes of debate on H.R. 987, under a structured rule.

05/10/2019

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 31.

05/10/2019

Committee on the Budget discharged.

05/10/2019

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-53, Part I.

04/03/2019

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 22.

04/03/2019

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

03/27/2019

Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .

03/27/2019

Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

02/07/2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

02/06/2019

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.

02/06/2019

Introduced in House

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