[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 256 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 256

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
 to allow medicare administrative funding to combat waste, fraud, and 
                     abuse, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 28 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Harkin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the 
 Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with instructions 
that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to 
                        report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
 to allow medicare administrative funding to combat waste, fraud, and 
                     abuse, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Program Protection Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    (a) Adjustments.--Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by redesignating 
subparagraphs (E) and (F) as subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively, 
and by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Medicare administrative costs.--To the extent 
                that appropriations are enacted that provide additional 
                new budget authority (as compared with a base level of 
                $1,526,000,000 for new budget authority) for the 
                administration of the medicare program by fiscal 
                intermediaries and carriers pursuant to sections 1816 
                and 1842(a) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 
                the adjustment for that year shall be that amount, but 
                shall not exceed--
                            ``(i) for fiscal year 1993, $177,000,000 in 
                        new budget authority and $177,000,000 in 
                        outlays;
                            ``(ii) for fiscal year 1994, $198,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $198,000,000 in 
                        outlays; and
                            ``(iii) for fiscal year 1995, $220,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $220,000,000 in 
                        outlays; and
        the prior-year outlays resulting from these appropriations of 
        budget authority and additional adjustments equal to the sum of 
        the maximum adjustments that could have been made in preceding 
        fiscal years under this subparagraph.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 603(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        is amended by striking ``section 251(b)(2)(E)(i)'' and 
        inserting ``section 251(b)(2)(F)(i)''.
            (2) Section 606(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ``section 
                251(b)(2)(E)(i)'' and inserting ``section 
                251(b)(2)(F)(i)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting 
                ``251(b)(2)(E),'' after ``251(b)(2)(D),''.

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