HR 1580 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011

Introduced Apr 15, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Charles A. Gonzalez D-TX

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 25, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 15, 2011
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to repeal the allowance for disenrollment, between January 1 and March 15 of each year, only from an MedicareAdvantage plan to elect enrollment in the original Medicare fee-for-service program.

Restores the option under previous law to elect to change from a MedicareAdvantage to the original Medicare fee-for-service plan, or from the original Medicare fee-for-service to a MedicareAdvantage plan, once a year during the first three months.



Cosponsors 82

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 15, 2011 to Aug 2, 2012, with 29 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-PABill ShusterOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-KYBrett GuthrieOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-CABrian P. BilbrayOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-WACathy McMorris RodgersOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-TXFrancisco "Quico" CansecoOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-KYGeoff DavisOriginalApr 15, 2011
D-NCHeath ShulerOriginalApr 15, 2011
D-TXHenry CuellarOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-OHJames B. RenacciOriginalApr 15, 2011
D-PAJason AltmireOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-ILJohn ShimkusOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-TXKevin BradyOriginalApr 15, 2011
D-CALaura RichardsonOriginalApr 15, 2011
D-PAMark S. CritzOriginalApr 15, 2011
R-TXMichael C. BurgessOriginalApr 15, 2011
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 25, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Apr 19, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Apr 15, 2011Introduced in House
  4. Apr 15, 2011Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1479Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011Identical billAug 2, 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 15, 2011Introduced in House

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