[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 159 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 159

 To eliminate the sunset for the determination of the Federal medical 
                   assistance percentage for Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 2005

 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To eliminate the sunset for the determination of the Federal medical 
                   assistance percentage for Alaska.

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

SECTION 1. DETERMINATION OF FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PERCENTAGE FOR 
              ALASKA.

    Section 706 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits 
Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, as enacted into law by section 
1(a)(6) of Public Law 106-554 (42 U.S.C. 1396d note) is amended by 
striking ``only with respect to each of fiscal years 2001 through 
2005,'' and inserting ``with respect to fiscal year 2001 and each 
fiscal year thereafter,''.
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