Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act

United States118th CongressHR-6030House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 17, 2024

Summary

Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act This bill establishes a Medicare buy-in option for certain qualifying first responders. Specifically, the bill allows first responders aged 50 to 64 to enroll in Medicare if they are retired or otherwise separated from service due to a disability. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must determine enrollment periods and set premiums for the buy-in option established under the bill, in accordance with specified requirements. The CMS must also award grants to states and nonprofit organizations for outreach and enrollment activities relating to the buy-in option.

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S-3113: Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders Act

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

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  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  4. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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