Kidd’s Stuttering Act

This bill would change Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to address stuttering and other childhood-onset fluency disorders. It would require the federal health secretary to add screening for these disorders in children ages 2 to 5 to the core set of child health quality measures by January 1, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, Medicaid well-child visits would include this screening, and Medicaid and CHIP would have to cover speech therapy for these disorders, including therapy delivered by live audio and video. Limits on this therapy could be no stricter than limits on speech therapy for certain other language and articulation disorders.

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Sponsors

• Addison P. McDowell Republican sponsor
• 24 cosponsors