HR 2050 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Huntington’s Disease Disability Insurance Access Act of 2021

Introduced Mar 18, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Bill Pascrell, Jr. D-NJ

Latest action · Mar 18, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

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.

IntroducedMar 18, 2021
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Huntington's Disease Disability Insurance Access Act of 2021

This bill expedites payment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits and eligibility for Medicare coverage for those with Huntington's disease. This is an inherited disorder that causes brain cells to die, including in areas of the brain that help to control voluntary movement.

Specifically, the bill eliminates the 5-month waiting period for SSDI benefits and the subsequent 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage for individuals with Huntington's disease. Under current law, individuals generally must wait five months after the onset of disability to begin receiving SSDI benefits and an additional 24 months to become eligible for Medicare.

Cosponsors 177

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 18, 2021 to Dec 22, 2022; 25 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-AR	Bruce Westerman	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-AR	J. French Hill	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-IL	Rodney Davis	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	Mar 18, 2021
R-WI	Thomas P. Tiffany	Original	Mar 18, 2021
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 26, 2021
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Mar 26, 2021
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Mar 26, 2021
D-NC	David E. Price		Apr 14, 2021
R-OK	Tom Cole		Apr 14, 2021
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Apr 14, 2021
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 20, 2021
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Apr 20, 2021
D-CA	Judy Chu		Apr 20, 2021
D-WI	Ron Kind		Apr 20, 2021
R-SC	William R. Timmons IV		May 4, 2021
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		May 7, 2021
D-WA	Marilyn Strickland		May 7, 2021
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		May 18, 2021
R-MS	Michael Guest		May 18, 2021
R-SC	Nancy Mace		May 18, 2021
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 4, 2021
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jun 4, 2021
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Jun 8, 2021
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Jun 24, 2021
R-TX	Troy E. Nehls		Jul 1, 2021
D-MA	Jake Auchincloss		Jul 6, 2021
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Jul 6, 2021
R-OH	Troy Balderson		Jul 6, 2021
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Jul 16, 2021
R-AK	Don Young		Jul 16, 2021
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Jul 16, 2021
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Jul 16, 2021
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Jul 16, 2021
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jul 22, 2021
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jul 22, 2021
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jul 22, 2021
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jul 30, 2021
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jul 30, 2021
D-NC	Deborah K. Ross		Aug 27, 2021
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Aug 27, 2021
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Aug 27, 2021
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Sep 3, 2021
D-PA	Susan Wild		Sep 21, 2021
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Oct 15, 2021
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		Oct 21, 2021
D-NY	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez		Oct 27, 2021
D-PA	Madeleine Dean		Nov 2, 2021
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Nov 2, 2021
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Nov 16, 2021
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Dec 1, 2021
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		Dec 1, 2021
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Dec 1, 2021
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Dec 7, 2021
D-MA	Lori Trahan		Dec 7, 2021
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Dec 9, 2021
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jan 6, 2022
R-SC	Joe Wilson		Jan 6, 2022
R-NY	Andrew R. Garbarino		Jan 28, 2022
D-CT	Jahana Hayes		Jan 28, 2022
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Mar 3, 2022
R-FL	Bill Posey		Mar 11, 2022
R-NE	Don Bacon		Mar 11, 2022
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Mar 11, 2022
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Apr 4, 2022
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Apr 4, 2022
D-NJ	Andy Kim		Apr 25, 2022
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Apr 25, 2022
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Apr 25, 2022
D-CA	Karen Bass		Apr 25, 2022
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Apr 25, 2022
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		May 10, 2022
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 10, 2022
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		May 10, 2022
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 10, 2022
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		May 24, 2022
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann		May 24, 2022
D-NV	Dina Titus		May 24, 2022
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		May 24, 2022
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		May 24, 2022
R-AL	Mike Rogers		May 24, 2022
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 24, 2022
R-WI	Bryan Steil		Jun 9, 2022
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jun 9, 2022
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jun 21, 2022
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jun 21, 2022
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Jul 1, 2022
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jul 1, 2022
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 13, 2022
R-NY	John Katko		Jul 13, 2022
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Jul 13, 2022
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Jul 13, 2022
D-MA	William R. Keating		Jul 13, 2022
D-MD	David J. Trone		Jul 20, 2022
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Jul 20, 2022
D-IL	Marie Newman		Jul 20, 2022
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 20, 2022
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Jul 20, 2022
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Jul 26, 2022
D-CO	Jason Crow		Jul 26, 2022
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jul 26, 2022
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar		Jul 27, 2022
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Jul 27, 2022
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Aug 2, 2022
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Aug 12, 2022
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Aug 12, 2022
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Aug 19, 2022
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Aug 19, 2022
D-IN	André Carson		Aug 23, 2022
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Aug 23, 2022
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Aug 30, 2022
D-IL	Sean Casten		Aug 30, 2022
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Sep 13, 2022
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Sep 13, 2022
R-TX	Tony Gonzales		Sep 13, 2022
R-UT	Burgess Owens		Sep 15, 2022
D-MO	Cori Bush		Sep 15, 2022
D-LA	Troy A. Carter		Sep 15, 2022
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Sep 22, 2022
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Sep 22, 2022
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 22, 2022
D-CA	Jim Costa		Sep 22, 2022
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		Sep 22, 2022
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Sep 22, 2022
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Sep 28, 2022
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Sep 28, 2022
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Sep 28, 2022
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Sep 29, 2022
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Sep 29, 2022
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Sep 29, 2022
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Sep 29, 2022
D-FL	Darren Soto		Sep 29, 2022
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Sep 29, 2022
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Sep 29, 2022
D-GA	Nikema Williams		Sep 29, 2022
D-MN	Angie Craig		Sep 30, 2022
D-NY	Jamaal Bowman		Sep 30, 2022
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Sep 30, 2022
D-HI	Ed Case		Oct 7, 2022
D-AK	Mary Sattler Peltola		Oct 7, 2022
D-NY	Mondaire Jones		Oct 11, 2022
D-MI	Rashida Tlaib		Oct 14, 2022
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Oct 14, 2022
D-CA	Sara Jacobs		Oct 14, 2022
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Oct 21, 2022
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Oct 21, 2022
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Oct 21, 2022
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Nov 3, 2022
D-CA	Katie Porter		Nov 10, 2022
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Nov 10, 2022
D-CA	Josh Harder		Dec 6, 2022
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Dec 8, 2022
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		Dec 8, 2022
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Dec 8, 2022
D-NM	Teresa Leger Fernandez		Dec 12, 2022
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler		Dec 14, 2022
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Dec 22, 2022

Committees 1

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 Mar 18, 2021
	Social Security Subcommittee	Referred Mar 18, 2021

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 18, 2021Introduced in House
Mar 18, 2021Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mar 18, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

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: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 51, March 18, 2021, page H1584.

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. 117-47	THE PATH FORWARD: ADVANCING TREATMENTS AND CURES FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES283 pages	Energy and Commerce Committee	Jul 29, 2021

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 868	Huntington’s Disease Disability Insurance Access Act of 2021	Identical bill	Mar 18, 2021

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the five-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits under such title and waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals with Huntington's disease.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Huntington’s Disease Disability Insurance Access Act of 2021

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 18, 2021Introduced in House

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