[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 74 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 74

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Secretary of the 
  Treasury and the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to 
               ``State Relief and Empowerment Waivers''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2019

  Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire (for herself, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Blunt 
   Rochester, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Schrader, Ms. 
 Mucarsel-Powell, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Norton, Mr. Rush, Mr. Cooper, Mr. 
    O'Halleran, Ms. Wild, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Welch, Mr. McNerney, Mrs. 
Dingell, Mr. Trone, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Espaillat, Mrs. Carolyn 
 B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Pappas, and Mr. 
Khanna) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 
 on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
   United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Secretary of the 
  Treasury and the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to 
               ``State Relief and Empowerment Waivers''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services relating to ``State Relief and Empowerment 
Waivers'' under section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (issued October 24, 2018, as a guidance and printed at 83 Fed. 
Reg. 53575, and a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability 
Office dated July 15, 2019, printed in the Congressional Record on July 
17, 2019, on pages S4901-S4903, concluding that such guidance is a rule 
under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule shall have no force 
or effect.
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