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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 751
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
to codify the Panel of Health Advisors within the Congressional Budget
Office, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. C
ARTERof Georgia (for himself and Mr. ESTES) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget
A BILL
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 to codify the Panel of Health Advisors
within the Congressional Budget Office, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Healthy Equipping 4
And Lending Technical Help Panel Act’’ or the 5
‘‘HEALTH Panel Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PANEL OF 1
HEALTH ADVISORS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Title II of the Congressional 3
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 4
601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-5
lowing: 6
‘‘SEC. 204. PANEL OF HEALTH ADVISORS. 7
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Panel of Health Advisors 8
(in this section referred to as the ‘Panel’) shall be within 9
the Congressional Budget Office. 10
‘‘(b) D
UTIES ANDPRIORITYTARGETAREAS.— 11
‘‘(1) D
UTIES.—The Panel shall— 12
‘‘(A) provide technical and functional ex-13
pertise and recommendations to the Congres-14
sional Budget Office to improve the office’s 15
studies, analysis, and cost estimates related to 16
health and health care issues and policies; 17
‘‘(B) meet at least once annually; and 18
‘‘(C) issue an annual report to the chair 19
and ranking minority members of the Com-20
mittee on the Budget of the House of Rep-21
resentatives and the Committee on the Budget 22
of the Senate which— 23
‘‘(i) details the work of the Panel and 24
includes such recommendations as have 25
been approved by a vote of at least 9 mem-26
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bers of the Panel and provided to the Con-1
gressional Budget Office; and 2
‘‘(ii) includes a description prepared 3
by the Director of the Congressional Budg-4
et Office detailing how the office utilized 5
any such recommendations provided under 6
clause (i) and the extent to which any such 7
recommendations were integrated into the 8
office’s studies and cost estimates. 9
‘‘(2) P
RIORITY TARGET AREAS .—For the pur-10
poses of this section, the Director of the Congres-11
sional Budget Office, in consultation with the chairs 12
and ranking minority members of the Committee on 13
the Budget of the House of Representatives and the 14
Committee on the Budget of the Senate, as well as 15
members on the Panel, shall determine priorities to 16
address in meetings of the Panel, and the report de-17
tailed under paragraph (1)(C). The Panel shall pro-18
vide expertise and recommendations under para-19
graph (1) with specific respect to the following 20
areas: 21
‘‘(A) Non-economic and economic studies 22
on health and health care issues and policies 23
developed by the Congressional Budget Office. 24
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‘‘(B) Official cost estimates prepared by 1
the Congressional Budget Office for proposed 2
health care legislation. 3
‘‘(C) Models developed and utilized by the 4
Congressional Budget Office to project non-eco-5
nomic and economic impacts of health care pol-6
icy changes and legislation. 7
‘‘(D) Health care components of the Con-8
gressional Budget Office’s annual Budget and 9
Economic Outlook publications, Federal Health 10
Subsidies for Health Insurance reports, Health 11
Insurance Coverage Projections, and other offi-12
cial publications related to health and health 13
care by the Congressional Budget Office. 14
‘‘(3) P
UBLICATION.—The Director of the Con-15
gressional Budget Office shall publish, on the Of-16
fice’s public website, the annual report prepared pur-17
suant to paragraph (1)(C). 18
‘‘(4) E
THICAL DISCLOSURE ; CONFIDEN-19
TIALITY.—The Director of the Congressional Budget 20
Office may establish— 21
‘‘(A) a system for public disclosure by 22
members of the Panel related to potential con-23
flicts of interest relating to such members; and 24
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‘‘(B) confidentiality agreements with mem-1
bers of the Panel to protect information ob-2
tained by the Government on a confidential 3
basis to inform official work products and con-4
fidential congressional requests for analytical 5
reports and budgetary scoring estimates. 6
‘‘(c) M
EMBERSHIP.— 7
‘‘(1) N
UMBER AND APPOINTMENT .—The mem-8
bership of the Panel shall include 15 members ap-9
pointed not later than 90 days after the date of the 10
enactment of this section, of which— 11
‘‘(A) 3 members shall be appointed by the 12
chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 13
House of Representatives; 14
‘‘(B) 3 members shall be appointed by the 15
ranking minority member of the Committee on 16
the Budget of the House of Representatives; 17
‘‘(C) 3 members shall be appointed by the 18
chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 19
Senate; 20
‘‘(D) 3 members shall be appointed by the 21
ranking minority member of the Committee on 22
the Budget of the Senate; and 23
‘‘(E) 3 members shall be appointed by the 24
Director of the Congressional Budget Office. 25
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‘‘(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—The membership of the 1
Panel shall aim to include, but not be limited to, in-2
dividuals with national recognition for their expertise 3
in health finance and economics, actuarial science, 4
health facility management, life sciences and drug 5
development, investment in health care companies, 6
health plans and integrated delivery systems, reim-7
bursement of health facilities, allopathic and osteo-8
pathic physicians, and other providers of health serv-9
ices, Medicare, Medicaid, and other related fields. 10
‘‘(3) S
PECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES .— 11
Members of the Panel shall serve as special Govern-12
ment employees (as defined in section 202(a) of title 13
18, United States Code). 14
‘‘(d) T
ERMS.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The terms of the members 16
of the Panel shall be for 3 years, except that the Di-17
rector of the Congressional Budget Office shall des-18
ignate staggered terms of the members first ap-19
pointed. 20
‘‘(2) V
ACANCIES.— 21
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—A vacancy in the 22
Panel shall be filled in the manner in which the 23
original appointment was made. 24
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‘‘(B) TERM OF MEMBER APPOINTED TO 1
FILL VACANCY.—Any member appointed to fill 2
a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the 3
term for which the member’s predecessor was 4
appointed shall be appointed only for the re-5
mainder of that term, except that a member 6
may serve after the expiration of that member’s 7
term until a successor has taken office. 8
‘‘(3) C
HAIR; VICE CHAIR.— 9
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Director of the 10
Congressional Budget Office shall designate a 11
member of the Panel, at the time of appoint-12
ment of the member, as chair and a member as 13
vice chair for that term of appointment, except 14
that in the case of vacancy of the chair or vice 15
chair, the Director of the Congressional Budget 16
Office may designate another member for the 17
remainder of that member’s term. 18
‘‘(B) R
EQUIREMENTS.— The chair and 19
vice chair shall be appointed by the Director of 20
the Congressional Budget Office— 21
‘‘(i) after considering recommenda-22
tions received from the chairs of the Com-23
mittees on the Budget of the House of 24
Representatives and the Senate; 25
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‘‘(ii) without regard to political affili-1
ation; and 2
‘‘(iii) solely on the basis of their fit-3
ness to perform their duties. 4
‘‘(4) L
IMITS.—Members of the Panel shall be 5
limited to two 3-year terms, for a total of not to ex-6
ceed 6 years of service on the Panel. For purposes 7
of this paragraph, any year of service on the Panel 8
by a person appointed to fill a vacancy under para-9
graph (2) shall be included in determining the num-10
ber of years that such person has served on the 11
Panel.’’. 12
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 13
of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating 14
to section 203 the following: 15
‘‘204. Panel of Health Advisors.’’.
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