State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023
Latest action · Dec 17, 2024 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.
- IntroducedNov 7, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023
This bill establishes the option for states, or groups of states, to apply to waive certain federal health insurance requirements and provide residents with health insurance benefits plans through a state-administered program. Such programs must cover 95% of the residents in the state within five years and plan benefits must be at least as comprehensive and affordable as the coverage under the equivalent federal program.
State programs are supported with funds from the federal programs the state programs replace, which may include Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employee Health Benefits program, certain federal tax credits, and premium-assistance funds, among others.
The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to appoint an Independent Assessment Panel for Comprehensive Care to review and recommend whether to approve state applications. Each approved state program must be independently reviewed every five years to evaluate changes in health benefits access, quality, and coverage, including whether the state has met the 95% coverage requirement.
The federal government must pay all health insurance costs for American Indians and Alaska Natives who enroll in a plan through a state insurance program.
Cosponsors 30
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 7, 2023 to Oct 8, 2024; 26 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-OR | Andrea Salinas | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-VT | Becca Balint | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MO | Cori Bush | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-IL | Delia C. Ramirez | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-NY | Jamaal Bowman | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-OR | Val T. Hoyle | Original | Nov 7, 2023 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Nov 21, 2023 | |
| D-PA | Summer L. Lee | Dec 7, 2023 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Dec 12, 2023 | |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Oct 8, 2024 |
Committees 5
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 Nov 7, 2023 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Nov 10, 2023 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Nov 7, 2023 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 17, 2024 | |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Nov 7, 2023 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Nov 7, 2023 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Nov 7, 2023 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Nov 10, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Nov 7, 2023Introduced in House
- Nov 7, 2023Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Accountability, and Education and the Workforce, 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 184, November 7, 2023, page H5545.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3775 | State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021 | Reintroduction of | Jun 9, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to authorize the establishment of, and provide support for, State-based universal health care systems that provide comprehensive health benefits to State residents, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advisory bodies
- Child health
- Comprehensive health care
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Federal-Indian relations
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Income tax credits
- Indian social and development programs
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Minority health
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 7, 2023Introduced 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.
