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

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.

IntroducedApr 15, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
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; 29 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-PA	Bill Shuster	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Francisco "Quico" Canseco	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-KY	Geoff Davis	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-NC	Heath Shuler	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-TX	Henry Cuellar	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-OH	James B. Renacci	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-PA	Jason Altmire	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-IL	John Shimkus	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Kevin Brady	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-PA	Mark S. Critz	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-PA	Mike Kelly	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-NY	Nan A. S. Hayworth	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-PA	Patrick Meehan	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Pete Sessions	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-LA	Rodney Alexander	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-TX	Ron Paul	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa	Original	Apr 15, 2011
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-OH	Steve Austria	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-FL	Vern Buchanan	Original	Apr 15, 2011
R-WA	David G. Reichert		May 13, 2011
D-WA	Jay Inslee		May 13, 2011
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		May 13, 2011
R-TX	John R. Carter		May 13, 2011
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		May 13, 2011
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		May 13, 2011
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		May 13, 2011
R-FL	Bill Posey		May 26, 2011
R-TN	Diane Black		May 26, 2011
D-UT	Jim Matheson		May 26, 2011
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		May 26, 2011
R-TX	Sam Johnson		May 26, 2011
R-OR	Greg Walden		Jun 13, 2011
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jun 13, 2011
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Jul 6, 2011
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Jul 6, 2011
R-TX	Pete Olson		Jul 6, 2011
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Jul 6, 2011
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Jul 6, 2011
D-PA	Tim Holden		Jul 6, 2011
D-NY	William L. Owens		Jul 6, 2011
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Jul 21, 2011
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Jul 21, 2011
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jul 28, 2011
R-CA	Darrell Issa		Aug 9, 2011
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Oct 11, 2011
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Oct 11, 2011
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Oct 12, 2011
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Oct 25, 2011
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Oct 25, 2011
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Nov 16, 2011
R-TN	Scott DesJarlais		Nov 16, 2011
R-LA	Bill Cassidy		Nov 18, 2011
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Nov 18, 2011
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Nov 18, 2011
R-KS	Mike Pompeo		Dec 1, 2011
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Dec 1, 2011
R-NY	Ann Marie Buerkle		Dec 19, 2011
D-KY	Ben Chandler		Dec 19, 2011
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Dec 19, 2011
D-OK	Dan Boren		Dec 19, 2011
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Feb 1, 2012
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Feb 1, 2012
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Feb 1, 2012
R-CO	Cory Gardner		Apr 18, 2012
R-NC	Howard Coble		Apr 18, 2012
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick		Apr 18, 2012
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Apr 27, 2012
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Apr 27, 2012
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		Apr 27, 2012
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Aug 2, 2012
R-NH	Charles F. Bass		Aug 2, 2012
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Aug 2, 2012

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 15, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 19, 2011
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Apr 15, 2011
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Apr 25, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 25, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 19, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 15, 2011Introduced in House
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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H2914.

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1479	Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011	Identical bill	Aug 2, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by restoring and expanding the Medicare open enrollment and disenrollment opportunities repealed by section 3204(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Short Titles as Introduced: Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 15, 2011Introduced in House

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