S.Amdt. 2804

SA 2804. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr.
Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the
case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal
employees, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 436, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following:

SEC. 2008. NONAPPLICATION OF MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY EXPANSIONS
UNTIL REDUCTION IN MEDICAID FRAUD RATE.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any
provision of this Act or an amendment made by this Act that
imposes federally-mandated expansions of eligibility for
Medicaid shall not apply to any State before the date on
which the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies
that the average payment error rate measurement (commonly
referred to as ``PERM'') for all State Medicaid programs does
not exceed 3.9 percent.
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