HR6130Referred to Committee

ASAP Act

Share:
Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-11-19
Introduced
230
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘ
Type

Sponsor

Vern Buchanan
Vern Buchanan
Republican · FL · Representative
Votes with party: 97.2% (606 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/B001260

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (230)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.

2026-09-16

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

Previously

Plain-English Summary

I don't have enough information to write an accurate summary. The bill title "ASAP Act" is too vague, and the subjects listed only indicate it relates to health without specifying what health policy it addresses. To provide a meaningful explanation of what this bill would actually do and who it affects, I would need the bill's full text or a more detailed description of its provisions.

AI-assisted summary generated from the official bill metadata (title, subjects, actions) sourced from Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed. Always verify against the official text linked below.

Subjects

Health

Full Bill Text

Verbatim text published on Congress.gov via GovInfo. Use Cmd+F / Ctrl+F to search within this excerpt.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6130 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6130 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of blood-based dementia screening tests. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 19, 2025 Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of blood-based dementia screening tests. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Alzheimer's Screening and Prevention Act of 2025'' or the ``ASAP Act''. SEC. 2. MEDICARE COVERAGE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS EARLY DETECTION SCREENING TESTS. (a) Coverage.--Section 1861 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x) is amended-- (1) in subsection (s)(2)-- (A) in subparagraph (JJ), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting ``; and''; and (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(KK) Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening tests (as defined in subsection (nnn));''; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(nnn) Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Early Detection Screening Tests.--The term `Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening test' means a test furnished to an individual for the detection of the pre-symptomatic and early stage of Alzheimer's disease or related dementias on or after January 1, 2028, that-- ``(1) is cleared under section 510(k), classified under section 513(f)(2), or approved under section 515 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and ``(2) is-- ``(A) a genomic sequencing blood or blood product test; or ``(B) such other equivalent test, including a single-analyte test, blood test analysis of cell-free nucleic acids, multiplex panel test, whole genome sequencing, protein expression, whole exome, whole transcriptome, and medical imaging (which are based on blood, blood products, tissue, urine or other biospecimen), as the Secretary determines appropriate in providing results comparable to those obtained with a test described in subparagraph (A).''. (b) Payment.--Section 1833(h)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(h)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ``Alzheimer's disease and related dementias early detection screening tests under section 1861(nnn) and'' after ``including''. <all>
Open clean-text viewRead on Congress.gov →

Related legislation

Bills by the same sponsor or covering overlapping subjects.