HR 5534 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2020

Introduced Dec 23, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Ron Kind D-WI

Latest action · Dec 24, 2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 570.

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.

IntroducedDec 23, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2020

This bill indefinitely extends Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients for individuals who do not have other coverage. Under current law, Medicare coverage is limited to 36 months following a transplant.

The Government Accountability Office must report on the bill's implementation.

Cosponsors 113

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 23, 2019 to Dec 21, 2020; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin	Original	Dec 23, 2019
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Dec 23, 2019
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler	Original	Dec 23, 2019
R-MO	Jason Smith	Original	Dec 23, 2019
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess	Original	Dec 23, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jan 7, 2020
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Jan 7, 2020
R-FL	Bill Posey		Jan 13, 2020
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jan 13, 2020
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Jan 13, 2020
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		Jan 15, 2020
D-CA	Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.		Jan 15, 2020
R-OK	Tom Cole		Jan 15, 2020
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jan 24, 2020
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Jan 29, 2020
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jan 29, 2020
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Jan 29, 2020
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Feb 4, 2020
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Feb 4, 2020
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Feb 5, 2020
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Feb 10, 2020
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Feb 10, 2020
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Feb 10, 2020
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Feb 10, 2020
D-HI	Ed Case		Feb 13, 2020
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Feb 18, 2020
R-MO	Billy Long		Feb 25, 2020
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Feb 25, 2020
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Feb 25, 2020
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Feb 25, 2020
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Feb 25, 2020
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Feb 25, 2020
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Feb 25, 2020
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Feb 26, 2020
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Feb 26, 2020
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 26, 2020
R-IL	John Shimkus		Feb 27, 2020
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Feb 27, 2020
D-CA	Katie Porter		Feb 27, 2020
R-TX	Lance Gooden		Feb 27, 2020
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Feb 27, 2020
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Feb 27, 2020
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Feb 28, 2020
R-UT	John R. Curtis		Feb 28, 2020
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 2, 2020
D-CA	Jim Costa		Mar 2, 2020
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		Mar 2, 2020
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Mar 2, 2020
R-TX	Pete Olson		Mar 2, 2020
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Mar 2, 2020
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Mar 3, 2020
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Mar 9, 2020
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Mar 13, 2020
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Mar 13, 2020
D-CA	Harley Rouda		Mar 23, 2020
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Mar 23, 2020
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		May 14, 2020
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		May 14, 2020
D-PA	Susan Wild		May 14, 2020
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Jun 15, 2020
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jun 30, 2020
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Jun 30, 2020
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Jun 30, 2020
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 30, 2020
R-VA	Denver Riggleman		Jul 16, 2020
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 16, 2020
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jul 16, 2020
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jul 31, 2020
D-FL	Darren Soto		Jul 31, 2020
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Jul 31, 2020
R-WY	Liz Cheney		Jul 31, 2020
R-NY	Peter T. King		Jul 31, 2020
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		Aug 7, 2020
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Aug 21, 2020
D-VT	Peter Welch		Aug 21, 2020
D-CT	John B. Larson		Sep 1, 2020
D-NY	Max Rose		Sep 1, 2020
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Sep 17, 2020
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Sep 17, 2020
D-MD	David J. Trone		Sep 17, 2020
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Sep 17, 2020
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Sep 17, 2020
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Sep 17, 2020
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Sep 17, 2020
D-NJ	Andy Kim		Oct 1, 2020
D-MI	Andy Levin		Oct 1, 2020
D-NY	Anthony Brindisi		Oct 1, 2020
D-NC	David E. Price		Oct 1, 2020
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Oct 1, 2020
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Oct 1, 2020
D-OK	Kendra S. Horn		Oct 1, 2020
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Oct 1, 2020
R-IL	Mike Bost		Oct 1, 2020
R-TN	Tim Burchett		Oct 1, 2020
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Oct 9, 2020
D-MN	Angie Craig		Oct 9, 2020
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Oct 9, 2020
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Oct 9, 2020
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Oct 9, 2020
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Oct 9, 2020
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Oct 9, 2020
D-IN	André Carson		Oct 16, 2020
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Oct 16, 2020
R-IN	James R. Baird		Oct 16, 2020
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Oct 16, 2020
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Oct 23, 2020
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Oct 23, 2020
D-TX	Al Green		Nov 18, 2020
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Nov 18, 2020
R-WV	Carol D. Miller		Nov 18, 2020
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew		Nov 18, 2020
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Dec 3, 2020
D-IA	Abby Finkenauer		Dec 21, 2020

Committees 2

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 Dec 23, 2019Markup Jul 15, 2020Reported Dec 24, 2020
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Dec 24, 2019Hearings Jan 8, 2020Markup Mar 11, 2020Reported Mar 11, 2020
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Dec 23, 2019Discharged Dec 24, 2020

Actions 11

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 24, 2020Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-687, Part I.
Dec 24, 2020Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Dec 24, 2020Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 570.
Jul 15, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 15, 2020Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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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	Lists H12297H.R. 5534–5537	—	Dec 23, 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.

Committee report

H. Rept. 116-687

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

Nov 2, 2020H.R. 5534, Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2020As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 15, 2020

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 207, December 23, 2019, page H12297.

Printed hearings 2

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. 116-103	THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BUDGET AND OVERSIGHT OF THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK151 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Feb 26, 2020
Serial No. 116-85	LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE AMERICANS' HEALTHCARE COVERAGE AND OUTCOMES224 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jan 8, 2020

Titles 3

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for extended months of Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2019
Short Title(s) as Reported to House: Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2020

Subjects

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

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 24, 2020Reported in House
Dec 23, 2019Introduced in House

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