Bridge to Medicaid Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9708 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9708 To ensure affordable health insurance coverage for low-income individuals in States that have not expanded Medicaid. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 19, 2024 Ms. Sewell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure affordable health insurance coverage for low-income individuals in States that have not expanded Medicaid. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bridge to Medicaid Act of 2024''. SEC. 2. ENSURING AFFORDABILITY OF COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS. (a) Reducing Cost Sharing Under Qualified Health Plans.--Section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18071) is amended-- (1) in subsection (b)-- (A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``(or, with respect to plan years 2026, 2027, and 2028, whose household income does not exceed 400 percent of the poverty line for a family of the size involved)'' before the period; and (B) in the matter following paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``In the case of an individual who is determined at any point to have a household income for 2025 that does not exceed 138 percent of the poverty line for a family of the size involved, such individual shall, for each month during such year, be treated as having a household income equal to 100 percent for purp