Title: RIP MSP Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act of 2017 or the RIP MSP Act
This bill repeals a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that allows the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to enter into contracts with health insurance issuers to offer multi-state plan options.
OPM must report about specified efforts in its process to wind down the multi-state program.
The bill rescinds specified unobligated funds that were provided to OPM for staffing and administering the multi-state program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2221 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2221

                To repeal the multi-State plan program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 12, 2017

  Mr. Johnson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
                To repeal the multi-State plan program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-
State Program Act of 2017'' or the ``RIP MSP Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MULTI-STATE PLAN PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``multi-State plan 
issuer'' and ``MSP issuer'' mean a health insurance issuer or group of 
health insurance issuers that has a contract with the Office of 
Personnel Management to offer multi-State plan options pursuant to 
section 1334 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public 
Law 111-148).
    (b) Program Repeal.--Effective October 1, 2018, section 1334 of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) shall 
have no force or effect.
    (c) Required Reporting.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management shall provide the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives a briefing concerning 
the efforts of the Office of Personnel Management (referred to in this 
section as ``OPM'') to wind down the multi-State program under section 
1334 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Such briefing 
shall contain such information as may be required, including 
information regarding--
            (1) the methods of communication OPM and an MSP issuer will 
        use to notify current enrollees that the multi-State plan will 
        not be offered during the next open season, including a 
        timeline of the planned communications;
            (2) a description of how the Director of OPM will work with 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that no 
        plans previously offered pursuant to such section 1334 are 
        offered on State or Federal Exchanges; and
            (3) a timeline detailing how OPM will close down the 
        information technology portal that MSP issuers utilize.
    (d) Rescission of Unused Funds.--Of the amounts made available to 
OPM for the purposes of staffing and administering the program under 
section 1334 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 
unobligated balance is rescinded, effective October 1, 2018.
    (e) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
        should assign employees of the Office whose duties on the date 
        of enactment relate to carrying out section 1334 of the Patient 
        Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) to 
        duties relating to processing appeals brought by individuals or 
        employers pursuant to such section 1334; and
            (2) no additional amounts should be appropriated for 
        salaries and expenses relating to processing such appeals.
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