Sponsor
Brendan Francis Boyle
Representative · D-PA
Representative · D-PA
The bill restores prior Medicaid law to avoid immediate coverage and administrative disruptions for states and beneficiaries, at the trade-off of potentially reversing federal savings and causing short-term implementation confusion.
Medicaid beneficiaries preserve their previous eligibility, benefits, and provider payment rules, avoiding disruptions in coverage or provider relationships.
State governments and Medicaid programs avoid the implementation costs and administrative changes that would have been required under the repealed chapter.
Federal taxpayers may face higher federal Medicaid spending if restoring prior law reverses savings that had been assumed under the repealed chapter.
Medicaid beneficiaries could experience uncertainty or disruptions if programs had already changed and then are rolled back, affecting continuity of care or provider networks.
State agencies and providers may face short-term confusion and administrative burdens from reversing changes they had started implementing.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals specific Medicaid-related statutory amendments from a prior law and restores affected statutes to their prior text.
Repeals a previously enacted chapter of Public Law 119–21 that amended Medicaid-related law and restores all affected statutes to their pre-enactment text. In practice, this bill nullifies the Medicaid provisions and amendments added by that chapter and treats the removed provisions as if they had never been enacted, effective upon enactment.
Official title: To repeal the Medicaid-related portions of An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
Introduced June 30, 2026 by Brendan Francis Boyle · Last progress June 30, 2026