[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 364 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 364

   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require criminal 
  background checks on drivers providing Medicaid medical assistance 
                        transportation services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2003

Ms. Hooley of Oregon introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require criminal 
  background checks on drivers providing Medicaid medical assistance 
                        transportation services.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIRING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON DRIVERS PROVIDING 
              MEDICAID MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1903(i) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396b(i)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (11) the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(12) with respect to any amount expended for medical 
        transportation services (other than ambulance and similar 
        emergency medical transportation services) provided by an 
        entity under a contract with the State unless there are 
        assurances, satisfactory to the Secretary, that the entity has 
        satisfactory arrangements to assure that--
                    ``(A) any driver providing such services has 
                undergone an appropriate criminal background check with 
                an appropriate State law enforcement authority, which 
                check shall include a matching of name and fingerprints 
                of the driver against the information maintained by the 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation in its National Crime 
                Information Center; and
                    ``(B) any individual who has been identified as 
                having been convicted of any felony involving violence 
                against any individual or any felony relating to the 
                use, distribution, or manufacture of alcohol or drugs 
                is not eligible to provide such services;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
to transportation services furnished on or after the first date of the 
first month that begins more than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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