S.Amdt. 296

SA 296. Mr. GRASSLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus)
to the bill H.R. 1, making supplemental appropriations for job
preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency
and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal
stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 720, strike line 18 and all that follows
through page 723, line 11, and insert the following:
(f) State Ineligibility.--
(1) Maintenance of effort requirements.--No State shall be
eligible for an increased FMAP rate under this section for
any fiscal year quarter during the recession adjustment
period if the Secretary determines, with respect to the State
plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (including
any waiver under such title or under section 1115 of such Act
(42 U.S.C. 1315)) and any fiscal year quarter during such
period, any of the following:
(A) Eligibility.--Any reduction in eligibility standards,
methodologies, or procedures under such State plan or waiver.
(B) Benefits.--Any reduction in the type, amount, duration,
or scope of benefits provided under such State plan or
waiver.
(C) Provider payments.--Any reduction in provider payments
under such State plan or waiver, including the aggregate or
per service amount paid to any provider and the amount and
extent of beneficiary cost-sharing imposed.
(2) Exception for reduction made for purposes of preventing
fraud.--A State shall not be ineligible under paragraph (1)
if the Secretary determines, with respect to the State plan
under title XIX of the Social Security Act (including any
waiver under such title or under section 1115 of such Act (42
U.S.C. 1315)) and any fiscal year quarter during such period,
that any reductions described in paragraph (1) that are made
by the State for any such quarter are for purposes of
preventing fraud under the State plan or waiver.
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