S2903-119

In Committee

Safe Step Act

119th Congress Introduced Sep 18, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Safe Step Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Government Operations, Labor.

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 id1318065c5cc44a37bc0cae2babf0db2a: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Step Act.
  • Section id94cddc67eda947a2b21822cca2dadf4d: 2. Required exceptions process for medication step therapy protocols The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after section...
  • Section idbe82175f81804b0b86e494f667cad2f9: 713A. Required exceptions process for medication step therapy protocols In the case of a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering coverage offered...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Safe Step Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Key Policy Areas

Healthcare, Government Operations, Labor

Primary Purpose

This bill, Safe Step Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Policy Domains

Healthcare Government Operations Labor

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • health care providers and patients
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health care providers and patients: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • health care providers and patients
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health care providers and patients: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 19, 2026

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.

Sep 18, 2025

Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Marshall, Ms. Rosen, …

Sep 18, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …

Sep 18, 2025

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?

Domains
Healthcare Government Operations Labor
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_labor"
→ Secretary of Labor

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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