[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2693 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2693

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide a more 
      equitable Federal medical assistance percentage for Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2000

 Mr. Murkowski (for himself and Mr. Stevens) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide a more 
      equitable Federal medical assistance percentage for Alaska.

    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 ``Alaska Medicaid Equity Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

    (a) In General.--The first sentence of section 1905(b) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and (3)'' and inserting ``(3)''; and
            (2) by striking the period and inserting ``, and (4) for 
        purposes of this title and title XXI, with respect to Alaska, 
        the State percentage used to determine the Federal medical 
        assistance percentage shall be that percentage which bears the 
        same ratio to 45 percent as the square of the adjusted per 
        capita income of Alaska (determined by dividing the State's 3-
        year average per capita income by 1.25) bears to the square of 
        the per capita income of the 50 States.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect October 1, 2000.
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