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H.R. 1916: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

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H.R. 1916: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-16 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-03-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 1 recorded vote in our records. Latest: House roll call 109 (2022): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, HR1916 (2022-04-04), Passed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.

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Official title

Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

Plain summary

Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover diagnosis and treatment of congenital anomalies and birth defects, such as reconstructive services and items. Coverage must include services and items that functionally improve, repair, or restore any body part that is medically necessary for normal bodily functions or appearance, as determined by the treating physician. Coverage limits and cost-sharing requirements for such services and items may not be more restrictive than those applicable to all medical and surgical benefits under the plan.

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Official text

Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18] · 317 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 1916, Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (2022-03-25); CBO cost estimate: CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 1916, the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (2022-04-04)

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Betty McCollum (D-MN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Mark Takano (D-CA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Jason Crow (D-CO), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Grace Meng (D-NY), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), William R. Timmons IV (R-SC), Angie Craig (D-MN), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Tom Cole (R-OK), John Joyce (R-PA) and 257 more.

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Record fed-us-cong117-hr1916 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117