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Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-146
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Cemeteries and funerals
Consumer credit
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care costs and insurance
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2021 
 
 
This bill allows medically distressed debtors to exempt certain property from their estates in bankruptcy, which allows them to retain ownership of such property. Specifically, a medically distressed debtor may exempt up to $250,000 of the debtor's interest in (1) specified real or personal property that the debtor or debtor's dependent uses as a residence, or (2) a burial plot for the debtor or debtor's dependent. 
 
The bill also waives certain administrative and procedural requirements for a medically distressed debtor.
 
 Additionally, the bill allows a medically distressed debtor to discharge in bankruptcy debts for certain education loans. 
 
A debtor who seeks relief as a medically distressed debtor must attest in writing that the debtor's medical expenses are genuine and were not incurred to bring the debtor within the meaning of a medically distressed debtor under this bill.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
CARES Windfall for the Wealthiest Repeal Act

Bill: 117-s-147
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Business expenses
Income tax deductions
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

CARES Windfall for the Wealthiest Repeal Act

 
This bill restores and makes permanent the limitation on excess businesses losses of noncorporate taxpayers. It also allows taxpayers a carryback of their net operating losses arising in 2019 and 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Dependent Income Exclusion Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-148
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Dependent Income Exclusion Act of 2021

 
This bill excludes certain wages or self-employment earnings of a dependent of a taxpayer for purposes of determining the taxpayer's eligibility for premium tax credits used to purchase insurance on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges. To qualify for the exclusion, the dependent must be under 18 years of age or have not attained age 24 during a specified five-year period, and be a full- or part-time student or apprentice or participant in a job training program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide Secretarial authority to temporarily waive or modify application of certain Medicare requirements with respect to ambulance services furnished during certain emergency periods.

Bill: 117-s-149
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Medicare
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 
This bill allows for Medicare payment of ground ambulance services that did not result in the actual transport of an individual to a permitted facility, if the lack of transport was due to community-wide COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) protocols for emergency medical services during the public health emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Parity in MA for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-150
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Ensuring Parity in MA for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 

2021

 
This bill allows audio-only diagnoses that are made via telehealth to be used for purposes of determining risk adjustments to payments under Medicare Advantage. Additionally, the bill requires payments for Medicare telehealth services that are furnished during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to be made in the same amounts as those for in-person services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
COVID HCBS Relief Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-151
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Allied health services
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Community life and organization
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Mental health
Nursing
State and local government operations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

COVID HCBS Relief Act of 

2021

 
This bill temporarily increases the applicable Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) under Medicaid for certain approved home- and community-based services that are provided between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2022. 
 
As a condition for receiving the increased rate, a state must agree to undertake activities to improve the delivery of such services during and after the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), such as by providing additional benefits to home health workers and by helping individuals who were relocated to nursing facilities during the emergency move back to their homes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Right to Test Act

Bill: 117-s-152
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Right to Test Act

 
This bill authorizes a state's public health department, or another entity designated by the state's governor, to approve a diagnostic test or diagnostic device (e.g., a test for the virus that causes COVID-19, or coronavirus disease 2019) for use during a public health emergency. 
 
Unless requested by the governor of the state, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must not, during the emergency, engage in certain enforcement actions related to such a test or device.
 
Not later than 180 days following the end of the public health emergency, the FDA must review and make a final determination concerning approval of the test or device.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Personalized Care Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-153
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Personalized Care Act of 2021

 
This bill revises provisions relating to health savings accounts (HSAs), including to 
 
 
redefine 
eligible individual
 for HSA purposes to allow increased participation in HSAs, 
 
increase the limit on contributions to HSAs, 
 
permit the payment of health insurance premiums from HSAs, 
 
include within the definition of 
qualified medical expenses
 periodic fees paid for medical services and amounts paid by a member of a health care sharing ministry,
 
treat periodic provider fees as deductible medical expenses, and 
 
lower the 20% penalty for nonqualified distributions from HSAs to 10%. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-154
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2021 

 
This bill establishes a reciprocal marketing approval process that allows for the sale of a drug, biological product, or medical device that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the product is approved for sale in another country and there is an unmet need. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires the product's sponsor to demonstrate, among other things, that (1) the product has been approved in one of the specified countries, (2) neither the FDA nor any of the specified countries have withdrawn approval for the product because of safety or effectiveness concerns, and (3) there is a public health or unmet medical need for the product.
 
The FDA may decline approval if the FDA determines that the product is not safe or effective. The FDA may condition reciprocal approval on the conduct of postmarket studies.
 
The FDA must issue a decision on whether to grant a request for reciprocal marketing approval within 30 days of receiving the request. 
 
Congress may pass a joint resolution to grant reciprocal marketing approval of a product that the FDA declines to approve through the reciprocal process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Access to Care Act

Bill: 117-s-155
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Equal Access to Care Act

 
This bill temporarily authorizes a health care provider who is physically located and duly licensed in one state to provide telehealth services to individuals in one or more additional states in which the provider is not licensed during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
TRICARE Retiree Protection Act

Bill: 117-s-156
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

TRICARE Retiree Protection Act
 
 
This bill authorizes a covered beneficiary who is enrolled in TRICARE Select to reenroll in TRICARE Select at any time during 2021. Covered beneficiaries are those in the retired category who enrolled in TRICARE Select as of December 31, 2020, but did not establish a monthly enrollment fee payment during the 2020 TRICARE Open Season.
 
A covered beneficiary who reenrolls in TRICARE Select must, at the time of enrollment, pay a portion of the annual enrollment fee and establish a monthly enrollment fee payment for the remaining months of 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Virtual Peer Support Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-157
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Mental health
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Virtual Peer Support Act of 2021

 
This bill appropriates funding for grants to transition behavioral health peer support services that are provided at no cost to participants from in-person to virtual platforms or to otherwise expand these kinds of virtual services.
 
Specifically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award competitive grants to certain consumer-controlled or consumer-run organizations and tribal communities. Among other eligibility requirements for these grants, entities must have offered certain behavioral health services at no cost to participants before the declaration of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
CROOK Act

Bill: 117-s-158
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
Business ethics
China
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Europe
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Human rights
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Judicial procedure and administration
Rule of law and government transparency
Russia
Sanctions
Securities
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Countering Russian and Other Overseas Kleptocracy Act or the CROOK Act

 
This bill requires various actions designed to combat public corruption in foreign countries.
 
The bill establishes within the Department of the Treasury the Anti-Corruption Action Fund to help foreign states fight public corruption and develop rule-of-law-based governance structures. For certain fines and penalties imposed under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an additional fine shall be imposed and deposited into the fund.
 
The Department of State must (1) manage U.S. government efforts to fight foreign public corruption, and (2) establish an interagency task force to assist in coordinating such efforts. 
 
Each U.S. embassy must have a point of contact responsible for coordinating the embassy's anti-corruption efforts. 
 
The State Department must report to Congress on its anti-corruption activities and make various reports publicly available online. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Inaugural Committee Transparency Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-159
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Inaugural Committee Transparency Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the presidential inaugural committee to disclose to the Federal Election Commission, by 90 days after the presidential inaugural ceremony, any disbursement made in an amount equal to or greater than $200 and the purpose of each disbursement. The committee must also disclose the name and address of the person to whom the disbursement was made, the date of the disbursement, and the total amount and purpose of the disbursement.
 
The bill prohibits (1) an inaugural committee from soliciting or receiving a donation from a foreign national, in addition to the current ban on a committee accepting such a donation; (2) a person from making a donation to an inaugural committee in the name of another; (3) a foreign national from making a donation or making a promise to make a donation to such a committee; or (4) converting a donation to an inaugural committee to personal use.
 
The committee must disburse any remaining donated funds not later than 90 days after the inaugural ceremony to tax-exempt charitable organizations, but may request an extension of such 90-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Innovation Voucher Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-160
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Economic development
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
National Guard and reserves
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Small Business Innovation Voucher Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to establish the Innovation Voucher Grant Program to aid small businesses in carrying out research, development, or commercialization of new or innovative products and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
SECURE Small Business Act

Bill: 117-s-161
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity Usage to Reach Every Small Business Act or the SECURE Small Business Act

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help small businesses purchase cybersecurity products and services.
 
Specifically, the SBA must establish a website that provides a marketplace for facilitating agreements under which small businesses may cooperatively purchase cybersecurity products and services. Such website shall be free to use for small businesses and cybersecurity vendors. The SBA must also take steps to educate small businesses about the types of cybersecurity products and services that are specific to each industry sector and provide outreach to encourage use of the cooperative marketplace.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study and report on potential improvements to existing federal initiatives that train small businesses on how to avoid cybersecurity threats. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-162
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Age discrimination
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Housing discrimination
Indian social and development programs
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Minority health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Research administration and funding
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a National Center on Antiracism and Health and a law enforcement violence prevention program.
 
Among other activities, the new center must declare racism a public health crisis, collect and analyze data, and administer research and grant programs to address racism and its impact on health and well-being.
 
Additionally, the bill specifically directs the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in coordination with the Department of Justice and other relevant stakeholders, to carry out the law enforcement violence prevention program by conducting research and supporting other activities pertaining to law enforcement violence and public health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate