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S 599 114th Congress Senate

Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act

Official title: A bill to extend and expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.

Introduced: February 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
Health Congressional oversightEmergency medical services and trauma careHealth programs administration and fundingMedicaidMental health
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 Everywhere this bill has been 23 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 11, 2015
Became Public Law No: 114-97.
Dec 11, 2015
Signed by President.
Dec 1, 2015
Presented to President.
Nov 20, 2015
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Nov 19, 2015
Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8175; text as Senate agreed to the House amendment: CR S8175)
Nov 19, 2015
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8175; text as Senate agreed to the House amendment: CR S8175)
Nov 17, 2015
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
Nov 16, 2015
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Nov 16, 2015
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8176-8177)
Nov 16, 2015
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8176-8177)
Nov 16, 2015
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 599.
Nov 16, 2015
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8176-8180)
Nov 16, 2015
Mr. Pitts moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Sep 29, 2015
Held at the desk.
Sep 29, 2015
Received in the House.
Sep 29, 2015
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Sep 28, 2015
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6979-6980; text as passed Senate: CR S6979-6980)
Sep 28, 2015
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6979-6980; text as passed Senate: CR S6979-6980)
Jul 30, 2015
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 180.
Jul 30, 2015
Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 114-101.
Jun 24, 2015
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Feb 26, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1168-1169; text of measure as introduced: CR S1169-1170)
Feb 26, 2015
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action December 11, 2015

Became Public Law No: 114-97.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on November 16, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to revise the length of the emergency psychiatric demonstration project under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that is currently limited to three years.

Participation in the demonstration project shall be extended through FY2016 for any requesting states selected for eligibility to participate on or before March 13, 2012, if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determines, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) certify, that a state's participation is projected not to increase net Medicaid program spending.

An additional extension through December 31, 2019, may be granted to a state, and the number of states eligible to participate may be expanded through December 31, 2019, if the same fiscal criteria are met.

HHS shall review annually each participating state's demonstration project expenditures to ensure budget neutrality. If a state's net programming spending has increased as a result of its participation in the project, HHS shall treat the excess expenditures as an overpayment under Medicaid.

This bill also revises certain limitations on federal funding.

HHS must submit recommendations to Congress: (1) first on whether the demonstration project should be continued after September 30, 2016, (2) whether it should be expanded to additional states, (3) subsequently on whether it should be permanently continued after December 31, 2019, in one or more states, and (4) finally on whether the demonstration project should be expanded (including on a nationwide basis).

$100,000 shall be available for the project from unobligated balances of amounts available in the CMS Program Management account.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 3681 Related bill Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act
 Bill text 6 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2
D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Apr 28, 2015
 R
Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Apr 14, 2015
 D
Murphy, Christopher
Connecticut · Mar 17, 2015
 R
Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Feb 26, 2015
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