| Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | |
| Fullname: | To provide health insurance benefits for outpatient and inpatient items and services related to the diagnosis and treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth defect. |
| Introduced In The: | 117th |
| Number Of Co-Sponsors: | 303 |
| Introducedin: | House of Representatives |
| Leghisturl: | https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1916 |
| Introducedbill: | H.R. 1916 |
| Introduceddate: | March 16, 2021 |
| Introducedby: | Anna Eshoo (D–CA) |
| Committees: | Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means and Education and Labor |
The Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act 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]
| Congress | Short title | Bill number(s) | Date introduced | Sponsor(s) |
| Latest status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115th Congress | Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | August 28, 2018 | Collin Peterson(D-MN) | 16 | Died in committee | |
| August 23, 2018 | Tammy Baldwin(D-WI) | 7 | Died in committee | |||
| 116th Congress | Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | February 26, 2019 | Collin Peterson(D-MN) | 313 | Died in committee | |
| February 26, 2019 | Tammy Baldwin(D-WI) | 53 | Died in committee | |||
| 117th Congress | Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act | February 2, 2021 | Anna Eshoo(D-CA) | 317 | Referred to Committees of Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means and Education and Labor. Passed the US House (310-110) on April 4, 2022. | |
| February 1, 2021 | Tammy Baldwin(D-WI) | 61 | Referred to Committee of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions |