[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 143 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 143

 To ensure that Members of Congress do not receive better prescription 
               drug benefits than medicare beneficiaries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2005

  Mr. Dayton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that Members of Congress do not receive better prescription 
               drug benefits than medicare beneficiaries.

    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 ``Taste of Our Own Medicine Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS OF MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS.

    (a) Limitation on Benefits.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the actuarial value of the prescription drug benefits of any 
Member of Congress enrolled in a health benefits plan under chapter 89 
of title 5, United States Code, may not exceed the actuarial value of 
basic prescription drug coverage (as defined in section 1860D-2(a)(3) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w-102(a)(3)), as added by 
section 101(a) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173; 117 Stat. 2071)).
    (b) Regulations.--The Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section.
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