# 119-hr-2445: Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025

119-hr-2445, Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3] (R-UT); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2445
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-27
- Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3] (R-UT)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Restricting Medicaid eligibility and federal payments for certain noncitizens.** This bill would prohibit HHS from enforcing a 2024 rule that streamlined Medicaid, CHIP, and Basic Health Program applications and would add new citizenship, immigration, and income re-verification requirements for enrollment and renewals. - Families and beneficiaries would face new verification rules: states must confirm an applicant is a U.S. citizen, national, or in a defined satisfactory immigration status before enrollment, and income-based eligibility must be re-verified at least quarterly. - Noncitizens in specific categories would trigger denial of federal Medicaid payments: parole under INA 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B), deferred action or deferred enforced departure, asylum, temporary protected status, and withholding of removal. - Program and state effects: the bill inserts these requirements into the Social Security Act and blocks the HHS streamlining rule, changing how enrollment, eligibility checks, and renewals operate for Medicaid and related programs.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Knott, Brad [R-NC-13] (R-NC), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Federal Medicaid payments barred for some immigrants: cost, high. If enacted, the federal government would not pay Medicaid for care to people with certain immigration statuses. This includes parole, deferred action or deferred enforced departure (including the June 15, 2012 DACA memo), asylum, temporary protected status, and withholding of removal. States could…
- Stricter Medicaid checks and streamlining blocked: cost, medium. If enacted, states would have to verify citizenship or immigration status before enrolling someone in Medicaid. If your Medicaid depends on income, the state would check your income at least every three months. The bill would also block HHS from using the April 2, 2024 streamlining rule for Medicai…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-6955: Main Street Capital Access Act
- 119-hr-7613: ALERT Act
- 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- 119-hr-511: AMERICANS Act
- 119-hr-2189: To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
- 119-hr-925: Dismantle DEI Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-2445 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2445)

## Related
- [119-hr-6955: Main Street Capital Access Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6955)
- [119-hr-7613: ALERT Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7613)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
- [119-hr-511: AMERICANS Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-511)
- [119-hr-2189: To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology an…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2189)
- [119-hr-925: Dismantle DEI Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-925)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2445 (as of 2026-04-21).