I am a strong supporter of implementing the Commerce Clause, which allows for health insurance to be purchased and used across state lines. ... Furthermore, implementing state reciprocity allows for American citizens to seek their own doctors
Support allowing health insurance to be purchased and used across state lines and support state reciprocity in healthcare and insurance.
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Evidence
Congress.gov lists Byron Donalds as a Republican House member from Florida's 19th District serving in the 117th through 119th Congresses, 2021-present, with 141 sponsored and 1,262 cosponsored legislative items on the member activity page.
Congress.gov summarizes H.R.314 as applying a primary state's laws to individual health insurance coverage offered by an insurer in secondary states, exempting insurers from secondary-state laws that would prohibit or regulate that operation. The bill's status was only Introduced, with latest action referral to the Subcommittee on Health on January 25, 2017.
Congress.gov says H.R.3799 provides statutory authority for alternative health insurance options, including association health plans and individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements. The tracker shows the bill passed the House on June 21, 2023, by roll call 282, but it did not become law.
The House Clerk's roll-call page for H.R.3799 records the vote question as On Passage, status Passed, total 220 yeas to 209 nays, and lists Donalds, Republican of Florida, voting Yea.
Assessments
Donalds supported a related health-insurance-choice measure, H.R.3799, and voted for House passage in 2023 during his current House service. But that bill did not become law and did not itself enact the promised interstate purchase/use reciprocity for health insurance. The more direct interstate-reciprocity bill cited predates Donalds's congressional tenure and also did not pass. Because there is evidence of legislative effort but no delivered federal policy outcome, this is a failed promise with effort credit.