[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4646 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4646

  To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to make optional the 
     requirement that a State seek adjustment or recovery from an 
individual's estate of any medical assistance correctly paid on behalf 
 of the individual under the State plan under such title, and to raise 
 the minimum age of the individuals against whose estates the State is 
             permitted to seek such adjustment or recovery.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 1994

Mr. Deal (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, 
 Mr. Parker, and Mr. Sanders) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to make optional the 
     requirement that a State seek adjustment or recovery from an 
individual's estate of any medical assistance correctly paid on behalf 
 of the individual under the State plan under such title, and to raise 
 the minimum age of the individuals against whose estates the State is 
             permitted to seek such adjustment or recovery.

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

SECTION 1. MAKING ESTATE RECOVERY OPTIONAL UNDER STATE MEDICAID PLANS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1917(b)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)), as amended by section 13612(a) of the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (hereafter referred to as ``OBRA-
1993''), is amended by striking ``shall seek'' each place it appears 
and inserting ``may seek''.
    (b) Increase in Age of Beneficiaries Subject to Recovery.--Section 
1917(b)(1)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(1)(B)), as amended by 
section 13612(a) of OBRA-1993, is amended by striking ``55 years'' and 
inserting ``65 years''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect as if included 
in the enactment of section 13612(a) of OBRA-1993.

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