Congress Proposes Doubling Medicaid Personal Needs Allowance for Nursing Home Residents in 2026
This bill is currently sitting in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It has not seen any action since October 2025, and it is considered stalled because no progress has been made for nine months. The committee must choose to review the bill before it can move any further in the legislative process.
No action since October 2025
This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.
Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 7682 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 7682 (118th) →How this policy affects specific groups of people
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
Roundup of Medicaid-related bills introduced in late Sep/early Oct 2025, including H.R.5685 to raise the Medicaid minimum personal needs allowance for institutionalized individuals/couples.
Background on the Personal Needs Allowance Modernization Act concept (doubling the federal PNA floor and indexing it). Not specific to the 2025 H.R.5685 bill, but closely related policy context.
No votes recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
PNA Modernization Act
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