Federal - HR 525
COVID HCBS Relief Act of 2021
Introduced
January 28, 2021
Description
This bill temporarily increases the applicable Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) under Medicaid for certain approved home- and community-based services that are provided between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2022.
Our Position
Support
Original Sponsor 1
Co-Sponsors 21
- Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
- Rep. Lisa Rochester (D-DE)
- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
- Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)
- Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA)
- Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH)
- Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI)
- Rep. John Larson (D-CT)
- Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)
- Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO)
- Del. Eleanor Norton (D-DC)
- Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA)
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
- Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY)
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
- Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL)
- Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY)
- Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
Latest Actions See More/Less
April 1, 2021 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Barragan, (D-Calif.) March 9, 2021 — Additional cosponsor(s): 2
Meng, (D-N.Y.) Soto, (D-Fla.) March 3, 2021 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Suozzi, (D-N.Y.) Feb. 18, 2021 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Cohen, (D-Tenn.) Feb. 8, 2021 — Additional cosponsor(s): 1
Norton, (D-D.C.) Jan. 28, 2021 — Original cosponsor(s): 15
Blunt Rochester, (D-Del.) Langevin, (D-R.I.) Porter, (D-Calif.) DeLauro, (D-Conn.) Larson, J. (D-Conn.) Pressley, (D-Mass.) Deutch, (D-Fla.) Matsui, (D-Calif.) Rice, K. (D-N.Y.) Doyle, (D-Pa.) Moore, (D-Wis.) Schakowsky, (D-Ill.) Kuster, (D-N.H.) Neguse, (D-Colo.) Tonko, (D-N.Y.) Jan. 28, 2021 — Read twice and referred to: House Energy and Commerce.Congressional Record p. H241