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HR 5443 116th Congress House Health Aging Disability and paralysis Health care costs and insurance Health personnel Home and outpatient care Hospital care State and local finance

Isaiah Baker and Margie Harris-Austin Act

Introduced: December 16, 2019 Introduced by: Scanlon, Mary Gay Democratic · Pennsylvania See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 17, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 16, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dec 16, 2019
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Isaiah Baker and Margie Harris-Austin Act

This bill allows state Medicaid programs to cover certain home- and community-based services, self-directed personal assistance services, and home- and community-based attendant services that are provided in acute care hospitals. The bill specifies, among other criteria, that such services may not be duplicative of, or serve as a substitute for, necessary or obligatory hospital services.

What's happening now December 17, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 2 Republican 2
D
Blunt Rochester, Lisa
Delaware · Mar 9, 2020
Hagedorn, Jim
· Mar 9, 2020
 R
Fitzpatrick, Brian K.
Pennsylvania · Feb 10, 2020
 D
Tonko, Paul
New York · Feb 10, 2020
 R
Emmer, Tom
Minnesota · Dec 16, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5443: Isaiah Baker and Margie Harris-Austin Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5443/
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