H.R. 1650

Summary

H.R. 1650, the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025, was introduced in the House on Feb 27, 2025 by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R) with 17 co-sponsors. It was referred to Ways And Means, and last saw action on Feb 27, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Record

Text

H.R. 1650 has 17 co-sponsors.

119 HR 1650 IH: Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-02-27
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 1650  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   February 27, 2025   Mr. Arrington  (for himself,  Ms. Lee of Nevada ,  Mr. Smith of Nebraska ,  Mr. Schneider , and  Mr. Panetta ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Ways and Means    A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the exemption for telehealth services from certain high deductible health plan rules.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025  .
2.
Making permanent the safe harbor for absence of deductible for telehealth
(a)
In general
 Section 223(c)(2)(E)  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking  In the case of  and all that follows through  a plan  and inserting  A plan .
(b)
Certain coverage disregarded
 Section 223(c)(1)(B)(ii)  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking  (in the case of months or plan years to which paragraph (2)(E) applies) .
(c)
Effective date
The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to plan years beginning after December 31, 2024.

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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the exemption for telehealth services from certain high deductible health plan rules.

Sponsors

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R) sponsors H.R. 1650, and 17 members have co-sponsored it, 4 of them from the day it was introduced.

Jodey Arrington

Rep. · R–TX-19 · Sponsor

Introduced Feb 27, 2025

Suzanne Lee

Rep. · D–NV-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Feb 27, 2025 · Original

Jimmy Panetta

Rep. · D–CA-19 · Co-sponsor

Joined Feb 27, 2025 · Original

Bradley Schneider

Rep. · D–IL-10 · Co-sponsor

Joined Feb 27, 2025 · Original

Adrian Smith

Rep. · R–NE-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Feb 27, 2025 · Original

Brian Fitzpatrick

Rep. · R–PA-1 · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 3, 2025

Nicole Malliotakis

Rep. · R–NY-11 · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 6, 2025

Carol Miller

Rep. · R–WV-1 · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 6, 2025

Don Bacon

Rep. · R–NE-2 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 30, 2025

Michael Baumgartner

Rep. · R–WA-5 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 30, 2025

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Committees

H.R. 1650 went before 1 committee: Ways and Means.

Ways and Means

Ways and Means

Referred To · Feb 27, 2025 · 1,160 Bills

Actions

H.R. 1650 has taken 2 actions since Feb 27, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 1650 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

H.R. 1650 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025 — Display Title
• Telehealth Expansion Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the exemption for telehealth services from certain high deductible health plan rules. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

19 clients hired 20 firms and 227 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 1650 in 89 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Medicare/Medicaid, Transportation, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Trade (domestic/foreign), Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 227.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 1650 under Taxation, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 1650’s is Taxation.

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