[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 976 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 976

 To disregard cost-of-living adjustments in tier 1 railroad retirement 
 benefits in determining eligibility for supplemental security income 
                        benefits under Medicaid.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 1993

  Mr. Jacobs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To disregard cost-of-living adjustments in tier 1 railroad retirement 
 benefits in determining eligibility for supplemental security income 
                        benefits under Medicaid.

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

SECTION 1. COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS IN TIER 1 RAILROAD RETIREMENT 
              BENEFITS DISREGARDED IN DETERMINING ELIGIBLITY FOR 
              SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME BENEFITS UNDER MEDICAID.

    Section 503 of Public Law 94-566 (90 Stat. 2685) is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: ``The preceding 
provisions of this section shall be applied by treating references to 
monthly insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act as 
including references to tier 1 railroad retirement benefits (as defined 
in section 86(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986); except that 
in applying such treatment the 1st month beginning after the date of 
the enactment of this sentence shall be substituted for `June 1977' and 
`October 1990' shall be substituted for `April 1977'.''

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