To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B of the Medicare Program to 15 percent and twice the period of no enrollment, and to exclude periods of COBRA, retiree, and VA coverage from such late enrollment penalty.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1788.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. HILL of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 46, March 14, 2019, Page H2747):
  Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 14, 2019 ↗

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  45 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1788, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1788

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  633a5d75f60649e9d37d0ac96802052371d2969a2ac45773def6f60685c5fb60

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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