Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to "State Relief and Empowerment Waivers".

Bill: 116-hjres-74
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2019-08-02
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of the Treasury

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2019-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-08-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution nullifies the rule issued October 24, 2018, that lessens requirements for states to obtain waivers from certain requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. </p>

tv_txt: IA 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 74 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 2, 2019 Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire (for herself, Ms. Schakowsky , Ms. Blunt Rochester , Mr. Tonko , Ms. Barragán , Ms. Matsui , Mr. Schrader , Ms. Mucarsel-Powell , Mr. Cárdenas , Ms. Norton , Mr. Rush , Mr. Cooper , Mr. O'Halleran , Ms. Wild , Mr. Suozzi , Mr. Welch , Mr. McNerney , Mrs. Dingell , Mr. Trone , Ms. Castor of Florida , Mr. Espaillat , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Garamendi , Mr. Pappas , and Mr. Khanna ) 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 JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to State Relief and Empowerment Waivers .

That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to State Relief and Empowerment Waivers under section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (issued October 24, 2018, as a guidance and printed at 83 Fed. Reg. 53575, and a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability Office dated July 15, 2019, printed in the Congressional Record on July 17, 2019, on pages S4901–S4903, concluding that such guidance is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule shall have no force or effect.