[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2190 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2190

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the 
 inclusion of barbiturates and benzodiazepines as covered part D drugs 
                           beginning in 2008.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 17, 2007

Mr. Rockefeller 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 provide for the 
 inclusion of barbiturates and benzodiazepines as covered part D drugs 
                           beginning in 2008.

    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 ``Medicare Mental Health Prescription 
Drug Access Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF BARBITURATES AND BENZODIAZEPINES AS COVERED PART D 
              DRUGS BEGINNING IN 2008.

    Section 1860D-2(e)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395w-102(e)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting ``and, beginning in 2008, 
other than subparagraphs (I) (relating to barbiturates) and (J) 
(relating to benzodiazepines) of such section'' after ``agents)''.
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