Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act

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Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
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Long titleTo provide health insurance benefits for outpatient and inpatient items and services related to the diagnosis and treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth defect.
Announced inthe 117th United States Congress
Number of co-sponsors303
Legislative history

The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (ELSA) is a proposed United States law that would require private health insurance plans to cover diagnosis and treatment of congenital anomalies and birth defects. [1] The bill is considered strong and bi-partisan in both houses of Congress. [2]

Contents

The bill was considered stalled as of March 2024, [3] and continued to be considered by the 2025 119th United States Congress. [2]

Background

Provisions

Legislative history

As of 15 December 2022:

CongressShort titleBill number(s)Date introducedSponsor(s)# of cosponsorsLatest status
115th Congress Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act H.R. 6689 August 28, 2018 Collin Peterson

(D-MN)

16Died in committee
S. 3369 August 23, 2018 Tammy Baldwin

(D-WI)

7Died in committee
116th Congress Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act H.R. 1379 February 26, 2019 Collin Peterson

(D-MN)

313Died in committee
S. 560 February 26, 2019 Tammy Baldwin

(D-WI)

53Died in committee
117th Congress Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act H.R. 1916 February 2, 2021 Anna Eshoo

(D-CA)

317Referred to Committees of Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means and Education and Labor. Passed the US House (310-110) on April 4, 2022.
S. 754 February 1, 2021 Tammy Baldwin

(D-WI)

61Referred to Committee of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Baldwin, Ernst, Eshoo, Ferguson Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Reform to Ensure Coverage for Children Born with Congenital Anomalies or Birth Defects | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin". www.baldwin.senate.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  2. 1 2 Abbott, Becky (9 January 2025). "New Congress, New Opportunities: How You Can Help Pass the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act". National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias.
  3. ↑ Lentskevich, Marina A.; Yau, Alice; Chwa, Emily; Reddy, Narainsai K.; Gosain, Arun K. (4 March 2024). "Coverage of Congenital Anomalies: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act in Legislation". Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 154 (6): 1353–1358. doi: 10.1097/prs.0000000000011379 . ISSN   0032-1052.

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