Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act

Bill: 116-hr-8840
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2020-12-02
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health programs administration and funding

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Medicare
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act</b></p> <p>This bill continues to exempt Medicare from budget sequestration orders until the end of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8840 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 2, 2020 Mr. Schneider (for himself, Mr. McKinley , Ms. Schrier , Mr. Suozzi , and Mr. Rush ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To amend the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to extend the temporary suspension of Medicare sequestration, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act . 2. Extension of temporary suspension of Medicare sequestration (a) Extension through the end of the COVID–19 public health emergency Section 3709(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ( Public Law 116–136 ; 134 Stat. 421) is amended by striking December 31, 2020, and inserting the termination date of the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act, . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ( Public Law 116–136 ; 134 Stat. 421).