I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6532 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a special enrollment 
period during the COVID–19 emergency period and to carry out outreach 
and educational activities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 17, 2020 
Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Ms. WILD, and Mrs. BUSTOS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to establish a special enrollment period during the 
COVID–19 emergency period and to carry out outreach 
and educational activities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘COVID Special Enroll-
ment Act of 2020’’. 
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SEC. 2. SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD THROUGH EX-
CHANGES; FEDERAL EXCHANGE OUTREACH 
AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 
(a) SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD THROUGH EX-
CHANGES.—Section 1311(c) of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking at the 
end ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking at 
the end the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) subject to subparagraph (B) of para-
graph (8), the special enrollment period de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) of such para-
graph.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(8) SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD FOR CER-
TAIN PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, 
subject to subparagraph (B), require an Ex-
change to provide— 
‘‘(i) for a special enrollment period 
during the emergency period described in 
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section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Secu-
rity Act— 
‘‘(I) which shall begin on the 
date that is one week after the date of 
the enactment of this paragraph and 
which, in the case of an Exchange es-
tablished or operated by the Secretary 
within a State pursuant to section 
1321(c), shall be an 8-week period; 
and 
‘‘(II) during which any individual 
who is otherwise eligible to enroll in a 
qualified health plan through the Ex-
change may enroll in such a qualified 
health plan; and 
‘‘(ii) that, in the case of an individual 
who enrolls in a qualified health plan 
through the Exchange during such enroll-
ment period, the coverage period under 
such plan shall begin, at the option of the 
individual, on April 1, 2020, or on the first 
day of the month following the day the in-
dividual selects a plan through such special 
enrollment period. 
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