S.Amdt. 3074

SA 3074. Mrs. FEINSTEIN 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 453, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following:

SEC. 2203. PERMITTING LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCIES TO ACT AS
MEDICAID ENROLLMENT BROKERS.

Section 1903(b)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396b(b)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following
new subparagraph:
``(C)(i) Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply in the
case of a local public agency that is acting as an enrollment
broker under a contract or memorandum with a State medicaid
agency, provided the local public agency does not have a
direct or indirect financial interest with any medicaid
managed care plan for which it provides enrollment broker
services.
``(ii) In determining whether a local public agency has a
direct or indirect financial interest with a medicaid managed
care plan under clause (i), the status of a local public
agency as a contractor of the plan does not constitute having
a direct or indirect financial interest with the plan.''.
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