[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1586 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1586

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to establish a Continuing 
  Disability Review Account in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
  Fund which shall be available solely for expenditures necessary to 
                carry out continuing disability reviews.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 1995

  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 establish a Continuing 
  Disability Review Account in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
  Fund which shall be available solely for expenditures necessary to 
                carry out continuing disability reviews.
    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 ``Social Security Continuing 
Disability Review Account Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING DISABILITY REVIEW ACCOUNT.

    (a) In General.--Section 201 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
401) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(n)(1) There is hereby created in the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund a Continuing Disability Review Account 
(hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the `Account'). The 
Account shall consist of such amounts as may be transferred to it under 
this subsection. The balance in the Account shall be available solely 
for expenditures certified under paragraph (3).
    ``(2)(A) Not later than September 1 of each calendar year, the 
Commissioner of Social Security shall--
            ``(i) estimate the present value of savings to the Federal 
        Disability Insurance Trust Fund which will accrue for all years 
        as a result of the cessation of benefit payments during the 
        fiscal year ending on September 30 of the prior calendar year 
        based on continuing disability reviews carried out pursuant to 
        the requirements of section 221(i) during or prior to such 
        fiscal year, and
            ``(ii) certify the amount of such estimate to the Managing 
        Trustee of the Trust Fund.
    ``(B) Upon receipt of certification by the Commissioner under 
subparagraph (A), the Managing Trustee shall transfer to the Account 
from amounts otherwise in the Trust Fund an amount equal to the lesser 
of--
            ``(i) 50 percent of the estimated savings so certified, or
            ``(ii) the difference (not less than $0) derived by 
        subtracting the balance in the Account as of the end of the 
        prior calendar year referred to in subparagraph (A)(i) from the 
        estimated savings so certified.
    ``(3)(A) Not later than September 15 of each calendar year, the 
Commissioner of Social Security shall--
            ``(i) estimate the total amount of expenditures which will 
        be necessary to carry out continuing disability reviews 
        required under section 221(i) during the fiscal year beginning 
        on October 1 of such calendar year, and
            ``(ii) certify such estimated amount to the Managing 
        Trustee of the Trust Fund.
    ``(B) The expenditures referred to in subparagraph (A)(i) shall 
include, but not be limited to, the cost of staffing, training, 
purchase of medical and other evidence, and processing related to 
appeals (including appeal hearings) and to overpayments.
    ``(C) To the extent of available funds in the Account, and prior to 
any action thereon by the General Accounting Office, the Managing 
Trustee shall, upon the commencement of each fiscal year, make 
available to the Commissioner from the Account an amount equal the 
total of estimated expenditures for such fiscal year described in 
subparagraph (A)(i) as certified under subparagraph (A)(ii).
    ``(D) The Commissioner shall use funds made available pursuant to 
this paragraph solely for the purpose of carrying out continuing 
disability reviews required under section 221(i).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 201(g)(1)(A) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 401(g)(1)(A)) is amended in the last sentence by inserting 
``(other than expenditures from available funds in the Continuing 
Disability Review Account in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Fund made pursuant to subsection (n))'' after ``is responsible'' the 
first place it appears.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT.

    Section 221(i)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 421(i)(3)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and the number'' and inserting ``the 
        number'';
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting a 
        comma; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following: ``and a final 
        accounting of amounts transferred to the Continuing Disability 
        Review Account in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund 
        during the year, the amount made available from such Account 
        during such year for continuing disability reviews, and 
        expenditures for continuing disability reviews made during the 
        year, including a comparison of such number of reviews with the 
        estimated number of reviews upon which the estimate of such 
        expenditures was made under section 201(n)(3).''.
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