[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2234 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2234

    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that 
 prescription drug card sponsors pass along discounts to beneficiaries 
  under the medicare prescription drug discount card and transitional 
                          assistance program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2004

  Mr. Daschle (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Reed, Mr. Feingold, Mr. 
 Kohl, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Graham of Florida, Mr. Reid, and 
   Mr. Dodd) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure that 
 prescription drug card sponsors pass along discounts to beneficiaries 
  under the medicare prescription drug discount card and transitional 
                          assistance program.

    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 ``Drug Discount Card Improvement Act 
of 2004''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING THAT PRESCRIPTION DRUG CARD SPONSORS PASS ALONG 
              DISCOUNTS TO BENEFICIARIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1860D-31(e)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-141(e)(1)(A)(ii)), as added by section 
101 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization 
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2071), is amended by 
striking ``take into account'' and inserting ``reflect at least 90 
percent of all''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of section 101 of the Medicare 
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2066).
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