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S.J.Res. 84 · Health
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability".
Introduced Sep 30, 2025 · Motion to proceed to consideration of measure rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 52. Record Vote Number: 8.
What does this mean?

This resolution would cancel a federal rule that changed how the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces (the online exchanges where people without job-based coverage can buy health plans, sometimes with government subsidies) operate. That rule had set a firm enrollment window of November 1 to December 31 each year, required extra proof of eligibility for most people signing up outside that window, barred DACA recipients (immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who are protected from deportation but aren't full legal residents) from buying marketplace plans or joining state low-income health programs, and stopped individual and small-business insurance plans from being required to cover certain gender-transition-related medical procedures. If this resolution passes, that rule would be undone, meaning those specific changes would no longer be in effect.

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Bill Lifecycle
Real action history from Congress.gov — where this bill is in the process, and every recorded step along the way.
Introduced in Senate
Sep 30, 2025
Referred to Committee
Sep 30, 2025
Full action history (6)
Sep 30, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sep 30, 2025Introduced in Senate
Dec 9, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 293.
Dec 9, 2025Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
Jan 13, 2026Motion to proceed to consideration of measure rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 52. Record Vote Number: 8.
Jan 13, 2026Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S147-157; text: CR S147)
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