[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 369 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 369

    To amend section 1128B of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
   criminal penalty for fraudulent disposition of assets in order to 
 obtain medicaid benefits added by section 217 of the Health Insurance 
              Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 1997

 Mr. Jeffords (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Chafee, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. 
Collins, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Glenn, and Mr. Reed) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend section 1128B of the Social Security Act to repeal the 
   criminal penalty for fraudulent disposition of assets in order to 
 obtain medicaid benefits added by section 217 of the Health Insurance 
              Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

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

SECTION 1. REPEAL OF CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENT DISPOSITION OF 
              ASSETS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN MEDICAID BENEFITS.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 1128B(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1320a-7b(a)), as amended by section 217 of the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191; 110 
Stat. 2008), is amended--
            (1) by adding ``or'' at the end of paragraph (4);
            (2) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (5) and 
        inserting a comma; and
            (3) by striking paragraph (6).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Health Insurance 
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-191; 110 
Stat. 1936).
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