To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to address fraudulent enrollments in the Exchanges.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7860 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7860 To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to address fraudulent enrollments in the Exchanges. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 9, 2026 Mr. Barrett 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 amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to address fraudulent enrollments in the Exchanges. 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 ``Stop ACA Enrollment Fraud Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. PREVENTING DUPLICATE ENROLLMENTS IN EXCHANGES. Section 1411 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18081) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(j) Preventing Duplicate Enrollments.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall-- ``(1) establish, as part of the program established under subsection (a), a process for identifying whether the social security number provided by an individual who is to be covered in the individual market by a qualified health plan offered through an Exchange is identical to the social security number of any enrollee in any Exchange under this title enrolled for the same period in which such coverage is to be effective; and ``(2) in the case that identical social security numbers are so identified under paragraph (1), take such actions as are necessa