Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
Latest action · Sep 9, 2020 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover diagnosis and treatment services for congenital anomalies and birth defects, such as reconstructive services and prosthetics. Coverage must include services that functionally improve, repair, or restore any body part that is medically necessary for normal bodily functions or appearance, as determined by the treating physician.
Cosponsors 313
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 26, 2019 to Nov 2, 2020; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IA | Cynthia Axne | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R-VA | Denver Riggleman | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| D-IN | Peter J. Visclosky | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R-OH | Steve Stivers | Original | Feb 26, 2019 |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Mar 5, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Mar 5, 2019 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 5, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Mar 5, 2019 | |
| R-MN | Pete Stauber | Mar 5, 2019 | |
| R-PA | Glenn Thompson | Mar 8, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Mar 11, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Mar 11, 2019 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Feb 26, 2019Markup Sep 9, 2020 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 27, 2019Hearings Jan 8, 2020Reported Mar 11, 2020Markup Mar 11, 2020 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 26, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 26, 2019 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 26, 2019 |
Actions 10
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Sep 9, 2020Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Mar 11, 2020Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- Mar 11, 2020Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Feb 26, 2020Motion to place bill on Consensus Calendar filed by Mr. Peterson.
- Jan 8, 2020Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Feb 27, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 26, 2019Introduced in House
- Feb 26, 2019Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.
- Feb 26, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2111 | Denver Riggleman R-VA | Feb 26, 2019 |
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Dec 24, 2020H.R. 1379, Ensuring Lasting Smiles ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 9, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 35, February 26, 2019, page H2235.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 116-85 | LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE AMERICANS' HEALTHCARE COVERAGE AND OUTCOMES224 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Jan 8, 2020 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46485 | The House Consensus Calendar: Establishment, Principal Features, and Practice in the 116th Congress (2019-2020) | Report | Feb 16, 2021 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 560 | Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | Related bill | Feb 26, 2019 |
| HR 6689 | Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | Reintroduction of | Aug 31, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth defect.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 26, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
