HR 4820
115th Congress
House
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ASK Act
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 23, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 19, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 18, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Jan 18, 2018
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Advancing Seniors and Kids Act or the ASK Act
This bill extends, and otherwise revises, various public health and social welfare programs. Specifically, the bill:
- permanently extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP);
- extends by one year, but reduces by half, additional federal financial participation for CHIP;
- extends CHIP's qualifying-states option, express-lane eligibility option, and outreach and enrollment program;
- extends the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund, the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program;
- modifies Medicare payment rules and reporting requirements with respect to ground-ambulance services;
- permanently extends specialized Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for certain special-needs individuals;
- expands certain supplemental benefits under MA for chronically ill enrollees;
- extends the Medicare payment adjustment known as the "home-health rural add-on";
- makes permanent or extends other specified programs and payment rules under Medicare;
- under Medicaid, extends certain health workforce demonstration projects as well as specified programs related to community health centers, diabetes, graduate medical education, family-to-family health-information centers, abstinence education, and personal-responsibility education;
- delays certain changes, under Medicaid, to disproportionate-share hospital allotments and to third-party liability provisions;
- extends the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and requires, under the program, continued demonstration of improvements in certain benchmark areas;
- establishes a grant program for the monitoring of representative payees under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program;
- otherwise revises provisions related to representative payment under SSI and OASDI; and
- with respect to the child-welfare system, modifies provisions related to information sharing and to overpayment liability.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Related & companion bills
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Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
4
Cosponsors
49
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Dingell, Debbie
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Raskin, Jamie
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Blunt Rochester, Lisa
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Clarke, Yvette D.
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Meeks, Gregory W.
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Ruiz, Raul
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Thompson, Bennie G.
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Velázquez, Nydia M.
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Welch, Peter
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Pallone, Frank
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Peters, Scott H.
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Tonko, Paul
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Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
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McGovern, James P.
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Adams, Alma S.
D
Barragán, Nanette Diaz
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Bonamici, Suzanne
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Boyle, Brendan F.
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Carson, André
D
Castor, Kathy
D
Chu, Judy
D
Cohen, Steve
D
Courtney, Joe
D
DelBene, Suzan K.
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Espaillat, Adriano
D
Gomez, Jimmy
D
Green, Al
D
Huffman, Jared
D
Jayapal, Pramila
D
Keating, William R.
D
Khanna, Ro
Kihuen, Ruben
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Larson, John B.
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Matsui, Doris O.
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
D
Panetta, Jimmy
D
Pingree, Chellie
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Pocan, Mark
D
Rosen, Jacky
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
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Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
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Sewell, Terri A.
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Soto, Darren
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Takano, Mark
D
Thompson, Mike
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Veasey, Marc A.
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Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
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Watson Coleman, Bonnie
D
Wilson, Frederica S.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4820: ASK Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4820/
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