Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Environment, Finance.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H5D15B4DFE9224C1B970FA37A805F4384: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act.
- Section H5DF514D53FCF46448CB49DB295CEA482: 2. Coverage of congenital anomaly or birth defect Part D of title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–111 et seq.) is amended by adding at...
- Section HFF19EF1A55B440CC9650E87909926F84: 2799A–11. Coverage of congenital anomaly or birth defect A group health plan, and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance...
- Section H8735C43E75DA413FAFF71FA05188B570: 726. Coverage of congenital anomaly or birth defect A group health plan, and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, shall provide...
- Section HFA96D9754A8C4B74A39FB5BCD7FBD268: 9826. Coverage of congenital anomaly or birth defect A group health plan shall provide coverage for outpatient and inpatient items and services related to the...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Environment, Finance
Primary Purpose
This bill, Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Ms. Ernst, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Murkowski, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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