Title: Closing Health Coverage Gaps for Public Servants Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Closing Health Coverage Gaps for Public Servants Act
This bill eliminates the ability for nonfederal governmental group health plans to opt out of certain coverage requirements, such as parity in providing benefits for mental health and substance use disorder benefits.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3796 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3796

   To eliminate the opt-out for nonfederal governmental health plans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 7), 2022

  Mr. Murphy (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) 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 eliminate the opt-out for nonfederal governmental health plans.

    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 ``Closing Health Coverage Gaps for 
Public Servants Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING THE OPT-OUT FOR NONFEDERAL GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH 
              PLANS.

    Section 2722(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300gg-21(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Sunset of election option.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding the 
                        preceding provisions of this paragraph--
                                    ``(I) no election described in 
                                subparagraph (A) may be made on or 
                                after the date of enactment of this 
                                subparagraph; and
                                    ``(II) except as provided in clause 
                                (ii), no such election expiring on or 
                                after the date that is 180 days after 
                                the date of such enactment may be 
                                renewed.
                            ``(ii) Exception for certain collectively 
                        bargained plans.--Notwithstanding clause 
                        (i)(II), a plan described in subparagraph 
                        (B)(ii) that is subject to multiple agreements 
                        described in such subparagraph of varying 
                        lengths and that has an election in effect 
                        under subparagraph (A) as of the date of 
                        enactment of this subparagraph that expires on 
                        or after the date that is 180 days after the 
                        date of such enactment may extend such election 
                        until the date on which the term of the last 
                        such agreement expires.''.
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