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<title>Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2013</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr173v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-02-07">
<action-date>2013-01-04</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Ensuring Continuous Medicaid Coverage for Children Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of state Medicaid plans to provide for 12-month continuous coverage of children.</p> <p>Specifies situations wherein a state Medicaid plan's failure to meet this requirement shall not be regarded as a failure to comply with Medicaid requirements generally.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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