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LINE Act

To prohibit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services from disclosing Medicaid data for law enforcement purposes related to immigration, and for other purposes.

Introduced Sep 11, 2025

Latest action (Sep 11, 2025) Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Financial Services Committee
Policy area
Health

Summary

This bill would prohibit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services from disclosing individually identifiable health information of Medicaid enrollees to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other entities for immigration law enforcement purposes. The bill overrides standard privacy law exceptions to prevent such disclosures. Health information obtained through Medicaid enrollment would be protected from use in immigration enforcement actions.

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)
22 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • NOT-EMPLOYED $24,000
  • THE VISTRIA GROUP $21,600
  • NULL $20,500
  • JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY $10,100
  • MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO $8,600

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

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 11, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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. · house
  2. Sep 11, 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 5281 — REAL Health Providers Act · Introduced Sep 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 4384 — Excluding Illegal Aliens from Medicaid Act · Introduced Jul 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 612 — Health Care Providers Safety Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 4209 — No Medicaid for Illegals Act · Introduced Jun 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3954 — Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 3222 — SMART Health Care Act · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 11, 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

September 11, 2025

Ms. Kamlager-Dove (for herself, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Norton, Ms. Crockett, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Carson, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Simon, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Ansari, Ms. Rivas, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Goldman of New York, and Ms. Jacobs) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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 prohibit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services from disclosing Medicaid data for law enforcement purposes related to immigration, and for other purposes.

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 “Limiting ICE’s Nationwide Encroachment Act” or the “LINE Act”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISCLOSING MEDICAID DATA.

Notwithstanding section 552a of title 5, United States Code, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services may not disclose the individually identifiable health information (as defined in section 1171(6) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d(6)) of an individual that is obtained in relation to such individual’s enrollment under a State plan (or waiver of such plan) under title XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) to any person, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for the purpose of enforcing the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101))). <all>

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