Protect Seniors and Cut Waste Act

Bill: 117-hr-1999
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2021-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Humanities programs funding
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Rural conditions and development
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: 

Protect Seniors and Cut Waste Act

 
This bill prohibits the budgetary effects of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 from being counted for the purposes of determining whether a specified sequester occurs under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 
 
(The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided funding to address the impact of COVID-19. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)
 
The bill also modifies several other provisions related to COVID-19 spending. Among other modifications, the bill 

 
provides supplemental appropriations for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to reimburse certain health care providers for health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to the coronavirus;
 
rescinds certain funds that were provided for payments to states, territories, and tribal governments to mitigate the fiscal effects stemming from the COVID-19 public health emergency;
 
prohibits individuals who are incarcerated or unlawfully present in the United States from receiving 2021 recovery rebates; and 
 
 rescinds funds that were provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Budget, and Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Budget, and Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Budget, and Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Budget, and Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Budget, and Education and Labor, 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.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Introduced in House