[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5183 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5183

  To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude benefits of 
   adopted disabled adult children from determinations of the family 
                                maximum.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2006

Mr. Kuhl of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude benefits of 
   adopted disabled adult children from determinations of the family 
                                maximum.

    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 ``Social Security for Adopted Disabled 
Adult Children Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF BENEFITS OF ADOPTED DISABLED ADULT CHILDREN IN 
              DETERMINATIONS OF THE FAMILY MAXIMUM.

    (a) In General.--Section 203(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 403(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
    ``(E) When any of such individuals who is an adopted child of the 
insured individual is entitled for any month to monthly benefits as a 
child described in section 202(d)(1)(G), the benefit to which such 
child is entitled on the basis of the wages and self-employment income 
of such insured individual for such month shall be determined without 
regard to this subsection, and the benefits of all other individuals 
who are entitled for such month to monthly benefits under section 202 
based on the wages and self-employment income of such insured 
individual shall be determined as if no such child were entitled to 
such benefits for such month.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to benefits for months ending after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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