Bill ties health aid to payment method starting 2027.
H.R. 9455 — SMOOTH Payments Act · Filed by Aaron Bean (R-FL) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 25, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill changes tax rules about health aid. Starting in 2027, people can only get aid if their health plan offers monthly payments. Monthly payments let people pay costs over time. People in plans that do not offer this lose the aid.
Who it affects
People who buy health plans and get aid are affected. Health plans must decide whether to offer monthly payments. People in plans without monthly payments will pay more.
One thing to notice
The bill ties aid to how a plan lets people pay. It does not tie aid to how good the plan is.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jun 25, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 25, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $60,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 1 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Aaron Bean, who sponsored the bill, received $1,194,650 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Paytient Technologies Inc. — $60,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- aid — Money the government gives to help people pay for health plans.
- monthly payments — A way to spread out costs over each month instead of paying all at once.
- health plans — Insurance that covers doctor visits, hospital care, and other medical costs.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,304 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 13, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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