3.0.0 1461 2023-01-11T13:37:33Z 2023-01-11T13:37:33Z Senate S 2017-06-28 115 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-06-28T19:02:46Z HEARTS Act of 2018 115 6886 HR 2018-10-01 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS HEARTS Act 115 2243 HR 2017-05-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Related bill CRS 2017-06-28 ssas00 Armed Services Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. IntroReferral 2017-06-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N Armed Forces and National Security Congressional oversight Health care costs and insurance Medicare Military medicine Veterans' medical care Armed Forces and National Security 00 2017-06-28 Introduced in Senate 2017-09-29T22:15:08Z Health Equity and Access for Returning Troops and Servicemembers Act or the HEARTS Act

This bill extends TRICARE eligibility to certain former members of the Armed Forces regardless of whether they enroll (as required under current law) in Medicare's supplementary medical insurance program. Specifically, the bill applies to former members who are: (1) younger than 65 years of age, (2) medically retired from the Armed Forces, and (3) entitled to Medicare hospital insurance benefits on the basis of their former entitlement to disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act.

Furthermore, these former members shall not be subject to late-enrollment penalties under Medicare's supplemental medical insurance program.

The Department of Defense must coordinate with the Department of Health and Human Services to: (1) identify former members to which the bill applies, (2) counsel those former members on the effects of declining to enroll in Medicare's supplemental medical insurance program, and (3) report to Congress on specified issues related to the bill's implementation.

]]> HEARTS Act Display Title HEARTS Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility of certain former members of the Armed Forces who are medically retired and who are entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare part A by reason of previous entitlement to social security disability insurance benefits to enroll in the TRICARE program regardless of whether such members decline enrollment under Medicare part B, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced HEARTS Act Short Titles as Introduced Health Equity and Access for Returning Troops and Servicemembers Act Introduced in Senate 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1461is/xml/BILLS-115s1461is.xml 2017-06-28 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.