[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2161 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2161

    To amend title II of the Social Security Act to expand current 
  restrictions on payment of benefits to prisoners by clarifying the 
types of offenses with respect to which such restrictions are applied, 
 by including under such restrictions payments to individuals confined 
for substantial periods to public institutions pursuant to court order 
  based on a verdict that the individual is not guilty of a criminal 
offense by reason of insanity or a similar finding, and by eliminating 
                     the rehabilitation exemption.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 1993

   Mr. Franks of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title II of the Social Security Act to expand current 
  restrictions on payment of benefits to prisoners by clarifying the 
types of offenses with respect to which such restrictions are applied, 
 by including under such restrictions payments to individuals confined 
for substantial periods to public institutions pursuant to court order 
  based on a verdict that the individual is not guilty of a criminal 
offense by reason of insanity or a similar finding, and by eliminating 
                     the rehabilitation exemption.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RESTRICTIONS ON PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO PRISONERS AND CERTAIN 
              OTHER INMATES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 202(x)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 402(x)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(x)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no 
monthly benefits shall be paid under this section or under section 223 
to any individual for any month--
            ``(A) during which such individual is confined in a jail, 
        prison, or other penal institution or correctional facility, 
        pursuant to his conviction of an offense for which the 
        specified maximum term of confinement is at least 6 months, or
            ``(B) for which such individual is confined in any public 
        institution by a court order pursuant to a verdict that the 
        individual is not guilty of an offense described in 
        subparagraph (A) by reason of insanity (or by reason of a 
        similar finding, such as a mental disease, a mental defect, or 
        mental incompetence) and which constitutes the seventh or a 
        subsequent consecutive month for which such individual has been 
        so confined.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 202(x)(3) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 402(x)(3)) is 
        amended by striking ``any individual'' and all that follows and 
        inserting ``any individual confined as described in paragraph 
        (1) if the jail, prison, penal institution, correctional 
        facility, or other public institution to which such individual 
        is so confined is under the jurisdiction of such agency and the 
        Secretary requires such information to carry out the provisions 
        of this section.''.
            (2) The heading for section 202(x) of such Act is amended 
        by inserting ``and Certain Other Inmates of Public 
        Institutions'' after ``Prisoners''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall apply with respect to 
benefits for months commencing after 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

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