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Medicaid Empowerment Act of 2025

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend renewal periods for certain home and community-based services waivers and State plan amendments under the Medicaid program.

Introduced Apr 29, 2025

Latest action (Apr 29, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare

Summary
  • Extends Medicaid home and community-based services waiver renewal periods from five years to ten years for extensions beginning after the bill's enactment.
  • Extends Medicaid state plan amendment renewal periods from five years to ten years for extensions beginning after the bill's enactment.
  • Extends Medicaid waiver election renewal terms from five years to ten years for renewals beginning after the bill's enactment.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Michael A. Rulli’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • COMPCO $30,800
  • Employer not reported $24,468
  • CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE LLC $13,200
  • KIMBLE COMPANY $13,150
  • P.I. & I MOTOR EXPRESS $10,000

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Michael A. Rulli → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 29, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Apr 29, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1279 — To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to establish a community engagement requirement for certain individuals under the Medicaid program. · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 936 — Medicaid Improvement and State Flexibility Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 81%
  • HR 1598 — Ensuring Access to Medicaid Buy-in Programs Act · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 1317 — I CAN Act · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 1433 — Kids’ Access to Primary Care Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 2538 — CARE Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 29, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 29, 2025

Mr. Rulli (for himself, Mr. Veasey, and Mr. Carey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend renewal periods for certain home and community-based services waivers and State plan amendments under the Medicaid program.

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 “Medicaid Empowerment Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING RENEWAL PERIODS FOR CERTAIN HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES WAIVERS AND STATE PLAN AMENDMENTS UNDER MEDICAID.

Section 1915 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396n) is amended—

(1) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting “(or, with respect to extensions of waivers beginning on or after the date of the enactment of the Medicaid Empowerment Act of 2025, 10-year periods)” after “five-year periods”;

(2) in subsection (h)(2), by inserting “(or, with respect to extensions of waivers under subsection (c) beginning on or after the date of the enactment of the Medicaid Empowerment Act of 2025, 10-year periods)” after “5-year periods”; and

(3) in subsection (i)(7)(C), by inserting “(or, with respect to renewals of elections beginning on or after the date of the enactment of the Medicaid Empowerment Act of 2025, 10- year terms)” after “5-year terms”. <all>

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