Empowering Parents’ Healthcare Choices Act of 2021
HR 4195, the Empowering Parents’ Healthcare Choices Act of 2021, allows parents to choose which health insurance plan covers their child when both parents have separate, qualifying coverage (e.g., individual policies or employer-sponsored group plans). Specifically, parents must submit a joint notification within 60 days of the child’s birth to designate one plan as primary coverage. This choice remains in effect until parents revoke it or one parent loses coverage under their plan. The bill applies to children born on or after January 1, 2022, and affects families with dual coverage, insurance issuers, and group health plans.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 16, 2023
Last action Dec 17, 2024
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Dec 17, 2024
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 23, 2023
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jun 16, 2023
House · Referred to committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Jun 16, 2023
House · Introduced
Introduced in House
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
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