HR 1379 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

Introduced Feb 26, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Collin C. Peterson D-MN

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
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Mar 14, 2019
R-MI	Fred Upton		Mar 25, 2019
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew		Mar 25, 2019
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Mar 25, 2019
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Mar 28, 2019
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		Apr 2, 2019
R-TX	Brian Babin		Apr 8, 2019
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler		Apr 8, 2019
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Apr 8, 2019
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Apr 10, 2019
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Apr 10, 2019
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Apr 10, 2019
D-IA	Abby Finkenauer		Apr 15, 2019
R-FL	Bill Posey		Apr 15, 2019
D-NY	Grace Meng		Apr 15, 2019
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Apr 15, 2019
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Apr 15, 2019
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 18, 2019
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Apr 18, 2019
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Apr 18, 2019
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 18, 2019
D-PA	Susan Wild		Apr 18, 2019
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Apr 25, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Apr 25, 2019
D-CA	Judy Chu		Apr 25, 2019
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Apr 25, 2019
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		Apr 29, 2019
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Apr 29, 2019
D-CA	Harley Rouda		Apr 29, 2019
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Apr 29, 2019
D-MD	David J. Trone		Apr 30, 2019
R-ND	Kelly Armstrong		Apr 30, 2019
R-TX	Lance Gooden		Apr 30, 2019
D-NJ	Andy Kim		May 9, 2019
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 9, 2019
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		May 9, 2019
D-FL	Darren Soto		May 9, 2019
D-MN	Ilhan Omar		May 9, 2019
R-KS	Steve Watkins		May 9, 2019
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 10, 2019
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		May 10, 2019
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		May 14, 2019
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		May 14, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Mucarsel-Powell		May 14, 2019
R-AK	Don Young		May 14, 2019
D-MN	Angie Craig		May 15, 2019
D-CO	Jason Crow		May 15, 2019
D-NV	Susie Lee		May 15, 2019
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		May 16, 2019
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 16, 2019
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		May 16, 2019
D-MI	Andy Levin		May 21, 2019
R-FL	Brian J. Mast		May 21, 2019
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 21, 2019
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		May 21, 2019
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 21, 2019
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		May 21, 2019
R-KS	Roger Marshall		May 21, 2019
R-GA	A. Drew Ferguson IV		May 30, 2019
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		May 30, 2019
D-IL	Bill Foster		May 30, 2019
R-MO	Billy Long		May 30, 2019
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		May 30, 2019
D-NH	Chris Pappas		May 30, 2019
R-AZ	David Schweikert		May 30, 2019
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		May 30, 2019
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		May 30, 2019
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 30, 2019
R-PR	Jenniffer González-Colón		May 30, 2019
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		May 30, 2019
D-CA	Josh Harder		May 30, 2019
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		May 30, 2019
R-TX	Ron Wright		May 30, 2019
D-CA	Ted Lieu		May 30, 2019
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 30, 2019
D-CA	Tj Cox		May 30, 2019
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		May 30, 2019
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jun 10, 2019
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Jun 10, 2019
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jun 10, 2019
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Jun 10, 2019
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jun 10, 2019
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Jun 10, 2019
R-WI	Mike Gallagher		Jun 10, 2019
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Jun 10, 2019
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jun 10, 2019
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jun 10, 2019
R-LA	Ralph Lee Abraham		Jun 10, 2019
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Jun 10, 2019
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jun 13, 2019
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Jun 13, 2019
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland		Jun 13, 2019
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jun 13, 2019
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jun 13, 2019
R-MN	Jim Hagedorn		Jun 13, 2019
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Jun 13, 2019
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Jun 13, 2019
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jun 13, 2019
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Jun 13, 2019
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Jun 13, 2019
D-IN	André Carson		Jun 18, 2019
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jun 18, 2019
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Jun 18, 2019
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo		Jun 18, 2019
D-TX	Al Green		Jun 19, 2019
R-WI	Bryan Steil		Jun 19, 2019
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Jun 19, 2019
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Jun 19, 2019
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jun 19, 2019
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Jun 19, 2019
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Jun 19, 2019
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Jun 19, 2019
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Jun 25, 2019
D-GA	David Scott		Jun 25, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jun 25, 2019
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jun 25, 2019
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 25, 2019
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jun 25, 2019
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jun 25, 2019
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		Jun 25, 2019
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jun 25, 2019
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jul 9, 2019
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jul 9, 2019
D-FL	Donna E. Shalala		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Jul 9, 2019
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jul 9, 2019
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Jul 9, 2019
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 9, 2019
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jul 9, 2019
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 9, 2019
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Jul 9, 2019
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Jul 9, 2019
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Jul 9, 2019
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 10, 2019
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jul 15, 2019
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jul 15, 2019
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jul 15, 2019
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Jul 15, 2019
R-GA	Jody B. Hice		Jul 15, 2019
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jul 15, 2019
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jul 15, 2019
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Jul 15, 2019
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Jul 15, 2019
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jul 16, 2019
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Jul 18, 2019
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Jul 18, 2019
R-MI	Bill Huizenga		Jul 25, 2019
R-NY	Chris Collins		Jul 25, 2019
R-TN	David Kustoff		Jul 25, 2019
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jul 25, 2019
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Jul 25, 2019
D-CT	Jahana Hayes		Jul 25, 2019
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton		Jul 25, 2019
R-IL	Darin LaHood		Aug 2, 2019
R-MS	Michael Guest		Aug 2, 2019
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Aug 6, 2019
R-CO	Doug Lamborn		Aug 13, 2019
D-CT	John B. Larson		Aug 13, 2019
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Aug 13, 2019
R-CA	Paul Cook		Aug 13, 2019
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Aug 13, 2019
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Aug 13, 2019
R-MS	Trent Kelly		Aug 13, 2019
D-MA	William R. Keating		Aug 13, 2019
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Aug 23, 2019
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Aug 23, 2019
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Aug 23, 2019
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Aug 23, 2019
D-MI	Rashida Tlaib		Aug 23, 2019
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Aug 30, 2019
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Aug 30, 2019
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Aug 30, 2019
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Aug 30, 2019
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Aug 30, 2019
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Sep 6, 2019
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Sep 12, 2019
D-NC	David E. Price		Sep 12, 2019
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Sep 12, 2019
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Sep 12, 2019
D-MA	Lori Trahan		Sep 12, 2019
D-PA	Madeleine Dean		Sep 12, 2019
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Sep 12, 2019
R-OK	Tom Cole		Sep 12, 2019
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Sep 16, 2019
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Sep 16, 2019
R-MD	Andy Harris		Sep 17, 2019
R-FL	Michael Waltz		Sep 17, 2019
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Sep 18, 2019
D-NV	Dina Titus		Sep 18, 2019
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 18, 2019
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Sep 19, 2019
R-IN	Jim Banks		Sep 19, 2019
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 19, 2019
R-GA	Doug Collins		Sep 24, 2019
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Sep 25, 2019
R-IL	Mike Bost		Sep 26, 2019
R-FL	Ross Spano		Sep 26, 2019
R-KY	James Comer		Sep 27, 2019
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Oct 1, 2019
D-NY	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez		Oct 4, 2019
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Oct 4, 2019
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Oct 4, 2019
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt		Oct 4, 2019
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Oct 11, 2019
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Oct 11, 2019
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Oct 11, 2019
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 11, 2019
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Oct 11, 2019
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 15, 2019
D-CA	Karen Bass		Oct 15, 2019
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Oct 18, 2019
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Oct 21, 2019
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Oct 21, 2019
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		Oct 21, 2019
R-IL	John Shimkus		Oct 21, 2019
D-OK	Kendra S. Horn		Oct 21, 2019
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Oct 23, 2019
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Oct 23, 2019
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Oct 29, 2019
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Oct 29, 2019
R-NY	John Katko		Oct 29, 2019
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		Oct 29, 2019
D-CA	Mark Takano		Oct 29, 2019
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Nov 5, 2019
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan		Nov 5, 2019
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Nov 8, 2019
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Nov 8, 2019
D-GA	John Lewis		Nov 8, 2019
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Nov 14, 2019
R-OK	Kevin Hern		Nov 14, 2019
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Nov 14, 2019
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Nov 14, 2019
R-MI	Jack Bergman		Nov 18, 2019
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Nov 18, 2019
R-NE	Adrian Smith		Nov 19, 2019
R-SC	Ralph Norman		Dec 3, 2019
R-LA	Garret Graves		Dec 6, 2019
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen		Dec 9, 2019
D-CT	James A. Himes		Dec 10, 2019
D-IL	Sean Casten		Dec 10, 2019
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Dec 13, 2019
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Dec 16, 2019
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Dec 19, 2019
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Dec 30, 2019
D-CA	Ami Bera		Jan 7, 2020
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jan 7, 2020
R-IN	Greg Pence		Jan 7, 2020
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Jan 7, 2020
D-NY	Max Rose		Jan 7, 2020
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jan 13, 2020
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Jan 13, 2020
R-TX	Roger Williams		Jan 13, 2020
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jan 15, 2020
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Jan 15, 2020
D-GA	Lucy McBath		Jan 15, 2020
R-GA	Barry Loudermilk		Jan 21, 2020
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Jan 24, 2020
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		Jan 27, 2020
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jan 30, 2020
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jan 30, 2020
R-SC	William R. Timmons IV		Jan 30, 2020
R-PA	Daniel Meuser		Feb 3, 2020
D-CA	Jim Costa		Feb 4, 2020
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Feb 6, 2020
R-PA	John Joyce		Feb 6, 2020
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Feb 6, 2020
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Feb 7, 2020
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Feb 11, 2020
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Feb 11, 2020
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		Feb 18, 2020
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Feb 21, 2020
R-NY	Tom Reed		Feb 21, 2020
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Feb 25, 2020
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Feb 25, 2020
D-NY	Anthony Brindisi		Feb 27, 2020
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney		Mar 2, 2020
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Mar 2, 2020
R-NE	Don Bacon		Mar 2, 2020
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Mar 2, 2020
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Mar 2, 2020
R-IN	Trey Hollingsworth		Mar 2, 2020
R-GA	Rick W. Allen		Mar 10, 2020
R-TX	Will Hurd		Mar 10, 2020
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia		Mar 12, 2020
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Jun 24, 2020
D-CA	Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.		Jun 24, 2020
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Jun 24, 2020
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		Jun 24, 2020
D-NM	Xochitl Torres Small		Jun 29, 2020
R-AZ	Debbie Lesko		Aug 7, 2020
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Aug 18, 2020
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Sep 1, 2020
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Sep 4, 2020
R-TX	Van Taylor		Oct 9, 2020
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Oct 13, 2020
D-CA	Katie Porter		Nov 2, 2020

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.

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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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution

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

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