Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025
Current understanding
The Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025 (introduced) would require states to verify citizenship or immigration status before enrolling individuals in Medicaid and to conduct quarterly income verification of enrollees. It would prohibit federal Medicaid payments for noncitizens holding parole, asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), withholding of removal, or DACA status. Practical effect if enacted: loss of federal Medicaid coverage for several categories of lawfully present noncitizens and added administrative verification burdens on states; status is introduced legislation.
Evidence log
- 2026-06-24 — LIFT the BAR Act: cross-connection with lift-the-bar-act-immigrant-benefits: Both address immigrant access to federal means-tested benefits; LIFT the BAR would broadly lift PRWORA bars while the Medicaid bill targets health coverage eligibility specifically. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-07-14 — Securing Healthcare and Income Entitlements for Lawfully Domiciled Citizens (SHIELD Citizens) Act: cross-connection with shield-citizens-act: Overlapping legislative efforts to restrict federal healthcare program eligibility based on immigration/citizenship status. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-27 — Ensuring Medicaid Eligibility Act of 2025: cross-connection with discretionary-employment-authorization-restrictions: Both target the same set of lawfully present but non-LPR populations (parole, DACA, TPS, asylum, withholding), one restricting work authorization and the other restricting federal Medicaid access. (novelty: 3)