Title: Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act of 2019 or the RIP MSP Act  This bill repeals the multi-state insurance plan program. (The multi-state plan program requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to contract with insurance issuers to provide a qualified health plan through the health insurance exchanges in multiple states.) The OPM must report about the process and timeline for ending the program within 60 days.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1378 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1378

                To repeal the multi-State plan program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2019

Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Braun, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Lee, 
   Mr. Alexander, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. Paul) 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 2019'' 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 January 1, 2020, 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 
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 January 1, 2020.
    (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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