S. 2064 119th Congress Senate

Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act

Official title: A bill to amend title XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation services under such titles, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 12, 2025 Introduced by: Lisa Blunt Rochester Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Jun 12, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act

This bill provides for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage of certain tobacco cessation services.

Specifically, the bill provides for coverage, without cost-sharing, of diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services and pharmacotherapy, including prescription and nonprescription tobacco cessation agents, that are provided under medical supervision and in accordance with specified guidelines. It also applies a 90% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) for such items and services for five years.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Finance Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 6

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK, INC.
for AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK, INC.
for AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK, INC.
for AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
for CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)
TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND
for TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
for CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
6 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
6 filings
SENATE
6 filings
Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
4 filings
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
3 filings
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
3 filings
Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
3 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

Cosponsors 1

Alsobrooks, Angela D.

Maryland · Aug 1, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2064: Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2064/

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"S. 2064: Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2064/.

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S. 2064, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2064/.

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