[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 401 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 401

  To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to eliminate funding 
 shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) 
                         for fiscal year 2007.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 2007

Mr. Rockefeller (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Menendez, Mr. Reed, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Obama, Mr. Feingold, 
Mr. Kerry, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Cardin, Ms. 
Klobuchar, Mrs. McCaskill, and Mr. Kohl) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to eliminate funding 
 shortfalls for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) 
                         for fiscal year 2007.

    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 ``Keep Children Covered Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF SCHIP FUNDING SHORTFALLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007.

    (a) Elimination of Remainder of Funding Shortfalls, Tiered Match, 
and Other Limitation on Expenditures.--Section 2104(h) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397dd(h)), as added by section 201(a) of the 
National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-482), 
is amended--
            (1) in the heading for paragraph (2), by striking 
        ``remainder of reduction'' and inserting ``part of''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
            ``(4) Additional amounts to eliminate remainder of fiscal 
        year 2007 funding shortfalls.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall allot to 
                each remaining shortfall State described in 
                subparagraph (B) such amount as the Secretary 
                determines will eliminate the estimated shortfall 
                described in such subparagraph for the State for fiscal 
                year 2007.
                    ``(B) Remaining shortfall state described.--For 
                purposes of subparagraph (A), a remaining shortfall 
                State is a State with a State child health plan 
                approved under this title for which the Secretary 
                estimates, on the basis of the most recent data 
                available to the Secretary as of the date of enactment 
                of this paragraph, that the projected federal 
                expenditures under such plan for the State for fiscal 
                year 2007 will exceed the sum of--
                            ``(i) the amount of the State's allotments 
                        for each of fiscal years 2005 and 2006 that 
                        will not be expended by the end of fiscal year 
                        2006;
                            ``(ii) the amount of the State's allotment 
                        for fiscal year 2007; and
                            ``(iii) the amounts, if any, that are to be 
                        redistributed to the State during fiscal year 
                        2007 in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2).
                    ``(C) Appropriation; allotment authority.--For the 
                purpose of providing additional allotments to remaining 
                shortfall States under this paragraph there is 
                appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not 
                otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary for 
                fiscal year 2007.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2104(h) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1397dd(h)) (as so added), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``subject to paragraph 
        (4)(B) and'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``subject to paragraph 
        (4)(B) and'';
            (3) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ``and (3)'' and 
        inserting ``(3), and (4)''; and
            (4) in paragraph (6), by striking ``and (3)'' and inserting 
        ``(3), and (4)''.
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