Title: MORE Health Education Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower Health Education Act of 2019 or the MORE Health Education Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct outreach and educational activities regarding federally-facilitated exchanges (i.e., health insurance exchanges that are established and operated within states by HHS). The activities must inform potential enrollees of the availability of coverage and related financial assistance under the exchanges and must be provided in culturally and linguistically appropriate formats.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 455 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 455

To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for 
         Federal Exchange outreach and educational activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2019

 Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Kaine) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide for 
         Federal Exchange outreach and educational activities.

    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 ``Marketing and Outreach Restoration 
to Empower Health Education Act of 2019'' or the ``MORE Health 
Education Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL EXCHANGE OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES.

    Section 1321(c) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(42 U.S.C. 18041(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(3) Outreach and educational activities.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In the case of an Exchange 
                established or operated by the Secretary within a State 
                pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary shall carry 
                out outreach and educational activities for purposes of 
                informing potential enrollees in qualified health plans 
                offered through the Exchange of the availability of 
                coverage under such plans and financial assistance for 
                coverage under such plans. Such outreach and 
                educational activities shall be provided in a manner 
                that is culturally and linguistically appropriate to 
                the needs of the populations being served by the 
                Exchange (including hard-to-reach populations, such as 
                racial and sexual minorities, limited English 
                proficient populations, and young adults).
                    ``(B) Limitation on use of funds.--No funds 
                appropriated under this paragraph may be used for 
                expenditures for promoting health insurance coverage 
                that does not meet Federal patient protection 
                standards, as defined in subparagraph (C).
                    ``(C) Federal patient protection standards.--For 
                purposes of subparagraph (B), `health insurance 
                coverage that does not meet Federal patient protection 
                standards' means any health insurance coverage that is 
                not a qualified health plan, as defined in section 
                1301. Such coverage that does not meet Federal patient 
                protection standards includes association health plans 
                and short-term, limited-duration insurance plans.
                    ``(D) Funding.--Out of any funds in the Treasury 
                not otherwise appropriated, there are hereby 
                appropriated for fiscal year 2020 and each subsequent 
                fiscal year, $100,000,000 to carry out this paragraph. 
                Funds appropriated under this subparagraph shall remain 
                available until expended.''.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
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