ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2016

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 114th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

SMD MoultonSponsor

55 cosponsors · 37 D, 18 R

PKR King DKD Kilmer CRD Ruppersberger TRD Ryan KRD Rice EBD Blumenauer BBD Boyle DCD Cicilline ALD Lowenthal SGR Graves RRR Ribble PTD Tonko EED Engel WJR Jones CPD Pingree MPD Pocan ESD Swalwell RBD Brady MCD Cartwright RCR Costello SPD Peters JBD Brownley JCD Conyers PDD DeFazio SDD DelBene JFR Fortenberry JGD Garamendi JMD McGovern TWD Walz KCD Clark JHR Herrera Beutler WKD Keating MFR Fitzpatrick PSR Sessions MTD Takano GBR Bilirakis SCD Cohen CRD Richmond CSR Smith ASD Schiff KCD Castor AHD Hastings MLD Lujan Grisham SPR Palazzo ESR Stefanik TMR MacArthur IRR Ros-Lehtinen JYD Yarmuth GKD Butterfield LBR Barletta KCR Cramer CCR Curbelo DHD Heck JLD Larson GMD Meng

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the five-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and require their payment starting the first month during all of which the individual is under a disability and in which the…