PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 1808 (101st)

Medicare Equity Act of 1989

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

12 April 1989

Last action

Status

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

3 June 2026

Summary

Medicare Equity Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase existing Federal excise taxes on tobacco products, except the tax on pipe tobacco. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to appropriate any revenue: (1) resulting from the tobacco tax increase to the Federal Catastrophic Drug Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund; and (2) credited to the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Account. Revises the method of determining the supplemental Medicare premium rate for pre-1994 tax years.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

2 official files

Introduced in House (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.