H.J.Res. 74House116th Congress (2019-2021)In Committee

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".

Introduced August 2, 2019

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This joint resolution uses the Congressional Review Act to reject a rule issued by the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services that concerns "State Relief and Empowerment Waivers" under the Affordable Care Act. By disapproving the rule, Congress would prevent it from having any legal effect. The action primarily affects the federal guidance and any state programs that would have relied on it.

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  • Congress formally disapproves the Treasury and HHS rule on State Relief and Empowerment Waivers, declaring that the rule shall have no force or effect.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

August 5, 2019

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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.

August 2, 2019

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

August 5, 2019

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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.