[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1641 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1641

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend medicare cost-
          sharing for certain qualifying individuals (QI-1s).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 23, 2003

 Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) 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 extend medicare cost-
          sharing for certain qualifying individuals (QI-1s).

    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 ``QI-1s Medicare Cost-Sharing 
Extension Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MEDICARE COST-SHARING FOR CERTAIN QUALIFYING 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Extension of Sunset.--Section 1902(a)(10)(E)(iv) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(E)(iv)) is amended--
            (1) by striking subclause (II);
            (2) beginning in the matter preceding subclause (I), by 
        striking ``ending with December 2002'' and all that follows 
        through ``for medicare cost-sharing described'' in subclause 
        (I) and inserting ``ending with March 2004) for medicare cost-
        sharing described''; and
            (3) by striking ``, and'' at the end and inserting a 
        semicolon.
    (b) Total Amount Available for Allocation.--Section 1933(c) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396u-3(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(E), by striking ``fiscal year 2002'' 
        and inserting ``each of fiscal years 2002 and 2003''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``the sum of'' and all 
        that follows through ``1902(a)(10)(E)(iv)(II) in the State; 
        to'' and inserting ``the total number of individuals described 
        in section 1902(a)(10)(E)(iv) in the State; to''.
    (c) Special Rule for First Quarter of 2004.--Section 1933 of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396u-3) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(g) Special Rule.--With respect to the period that begins on 
January 1, 2004, and ends on March 31, 2004, a State shall select 
qualifying individuals, and provide such individuals with assistance, 
in accordance with the provisions of this section as in effect with 
respect to calendar year 2003, except that for such purpose--
            ``(1) references in the preceding subsections of this 
        section to `fiscal year' and `calendar year' shall be deemed to 
        be references to such period; and
            ``(2) the total allocation amount under subsection (c) for 
        such period shall be $100,000,000.''.
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