Title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Treasury and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver Implementing Regulations, and Improving Health Insurance Markets for 2022 and Beyond".
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver Implementing Regulations, and Improving Health Insurance Markets for 2022 and Beyond, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of the Treasury on September 27, 2021. The rule expands the open enrollment period for individual health coverage and rescinds the previous interpretation of certain requirements relating to Section 1332 waivers (also known as State Innovation Waivers or State Relief and Empowerment Waivers).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 79 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 79

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
  United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the 
 Treasury and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to 
    ``Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment 
Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver Implementing Regulations, and Improving 
            Health Insurance Markets for 2022 and Beyond''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2022

Mr. Cloud submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
  United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the 
 Treasury and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to 
    ``Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment 
Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver Implementing Regulations, and Improving 
            Health Insurance Markets for 2022 and Beyond''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Department of the Treasury and the Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to ``Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver 
Implementing Regulations, and Improving Health Insurance Markets for 
2022 and Beyond'' (86 Fed. Reg. 53412 (September 27, 2021)), and such 
rule shall have no force or effect.
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