Federal - S 151
COVID HCBS Relief Act of 2021
Introduced
February 2, 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 18
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
- Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
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Feb. 2, 2021 — Original cosponsor(s): 18
Baldwin, (D-Wis.) Klobuchar, (D-Minn.) Sanders, (I-Vt.) Blumenthal, (D-Conn.) Markey, (D-Mass.) Shaheen, (D-N.H.) Booker, (D-N.J.) Menendez, (D-N.J.) Smith, (D-Minn.) Brown, S. (D-Ohio) Merkley, (D-Ore.) Stabenow, (D-Mich.) Duckworth, (D-Ill.) Peters, G. (D-Mich.) Van Hollen, (D-Md.) Gillibrand, (D-N.Y.) Reed, J. (D-R.I.) Warren, (D-Mass.) Feb. 2, 2021 — Read twice and referred to: Senate Finance.Congressional Record p. S248