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S 3220 116th Congress Senate Health Aging Disability and paralysis Health care costs and insurance Health personnel Home and outpatient care Hospital care State and local finance

Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act

Introduced: January 21, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 21, 2020
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Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals 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 January 21, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 3548 Related bill CARES Act
  • HR 5443 Related bill Isaiah Baker and Margie Harris-Austin Act
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Mar 3, 2020
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Feb 10, 2020
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Jan 28, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3220: Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3220/
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"S. 3220: Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3220/.
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S. 3220, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3220/.
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