119-s1164

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1164 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1164

 To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans 
 offered through Federal Exchanges.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 27, 2025

 Ms. Hassan (for herself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Coons, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
 Curtis, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Peters, and Mrs. Capito) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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 A BILL

 To allow additional individuals to enroll in standalone dental plans 
 offered through Federal Exchanges.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Increasing Access to Dental 
Insurance Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDALONE DENTAL PLANS.

 

Section 1321 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 
U.S.C. 18041) is amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (f) Availability of Standalone Dental Plans.--The Secretary may 
not restrict any qualified individual from enrolling in a plan 
described in 

section 1311
            (d) (2)
        (B)
            (ii) offered through an Exchange 
established pursuant to subsection
            (c) on the basis of such qualified 
individual not being also enrolled in a qualified health plan offered 
through the Exchange.''.
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