[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 979 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 979

    To amend title II of the Social Security Act to expand current 
restrictions on payment of benefits to prisoners to include payments to 
  individuals confined 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.


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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 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 to include payments to 
  individuals confined 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.

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

SECTION 1. RESTRICTION ON PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS CONFINED 
              BY COURT ORDER TO PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PURSUANT TO 
              VERDICTS OF NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY OR OTHER 
              MENTAL DISORDER.

    Section 202(x) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402(x)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``and Certain Other 
        Inmates of Public Institutions'' after ``Prisoners'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or is confined in any 
        public institution by a court order pursuant to a verdict that 
        the individual is not guilty of such an offense by reason of 
        insanity (or by reason of a similar finding, such as a mental 
        disease, a mental defect, or mental incompetence),'' after 
        ``applicable law,''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3), 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.''.

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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