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H.R. 4820: ASK Act

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H.R. 4820: ASK Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-01-18 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-01-18 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

ASK Act

Plain summary

Advancing Seniors and Kids Act or the ASK Act This bill extends, and otherwise revises, various public health and social welfare programs. Specifically, the bill: permanently extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP); extends by one year, but reduces by half, additional federal financial participation for CHIP; extends CHIP's qualifying-states option, express-lane eligibility option, and outreach and enrollment program; extends the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund, the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program; modifies Medicare payment rules and reporting requirements with respect to ground-ambulance services; permanently extends specialized Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for certain special-needs individuals; expands certain supplemental benefits under MA for chronically ill enrollees; extends the Medicare payment adjustment known as the "home-health rural add-on"; makes permanent or extends other specified programs and payment rules under Medicare; under Medicaid, extends certain health workforce demonstration projects as well as specified programs related to community health centers, diabetes, graduate medical education, family-to-family health-information centers, abstinence education, and personal-responsibility education; delays certain changes, under Medicaid, to disproportionate-share hospital allotments and to third-party liability provisions; extends the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and requires, under the program, continued demonstration of improvements in certain benchmark areas; establishes a grant program for the monitoring of representative payees under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program; otherwise revises provisions related to representative payment under SSI and OASDI; and with respect to the child-welfare system, modifies provisions related to information sharing and to overpayment liability.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

ASK Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4] · 84 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), André Carson (D-IN), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), John B. Larson (D-CT), Judy Chu (D-CA), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX), Darren Soto (D-FL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Al Green (D-TX), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Mark Takano (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Paul Tonko (D-NY) and 24 more.

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Words on this page, explained (3)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
Securities
Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr4820 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115