HCBS Access Act
Official title: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require coverage of, and expand access to, home and community-based services under the Medicaid program; to aw… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require coverage of, and expand access to, home and community-based services under the Medicaid program; to award grants for the creation, recruitment, training and education, retention, and advancement of the direct care workforce and to award grants to support family caregivers; and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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.
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- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- AUTISM SPEAKS
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
- AMERICAN NETWORK OF COMMUNITY OPTIONS AND RESOURCES
- CURE SMA
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Administration on Aging
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8540: HCBS Access Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8540/
"H.R. 8540: HCBS Access Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8540/.
H.R. 8540, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8540/.
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