[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1641 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1641
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend medicare cost-
sharing for certain qualifying individuals (QI-1s).
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 23, 2003
Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend medicare cost-
sharing for certain qualifying individuals (QI-1s).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``QI-1s Medicare Cost-Sharing
Extension Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MEDICARE COST-SHARING FOR CERTAIN QUALIFYING
INDIVIDUALS.
(a) Extension of Sunset.--Section 1902(a)(10)(E)(iv) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(E)(iv)) is amended--
(1) by striking subclause (II);
(2) beginning in the matter preceding subclause (I), by
striking ``ending with December 2002'' and all that follows
through ``for medicare cost-sharing described'' in subclause
(I) and inserting ``ending with March 2004) for medicare cost-
sharing described''; and
(3) by striking ``, and'' at the end and inserting a
semicolon.
(b) Total Amount Available for Allocation.--Section 1933(c) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396u-3(c)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)(E), by striking ``fiscal year 2002''
and inserting ``each of fiscal years 2002 and 2003''; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``the sum of'' and all
that follows through ``1902(a)(10)(E)(iv)(II) in the State;
to'' and inserting ``the total number of individuals described
in section 1902(a)(10)(E)(iv) in the State; to''.
(c) Special Rule for First Quarter of 2004.--Section 1933 of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396u-3) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
``(g) Special Rule.--With respect to the period that begins on
January 1, 2004, and ends on March 31, 2004, a State shall select
qualifying individuals, and provide such individuals with assistance,
in accordance with the provisions of this section as in effect with
respect to calendar year 2003, except that for such purpose--
``(1) references in the preceding subsections of this
section to `fiscal year' and `calendar year' shall be deemed to
be references to such period; and
``(2) the total allocation amount under subsection (c) for
such period shall be $100,000,000.''.
<all>