[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 44 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 44

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained in 
the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the Director 
  of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for 
 Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-
               003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2008

Mr. Rockefeller (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Domenici, Mr. 
  Lautenberg, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
 Mikulski, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Smith, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Whitehouse, Mrs. 
 McCaskill, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. Murray, 
Mr. Akaka, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Casey, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Dodd, Ms. Landrieu, 
Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Obama, Mr. Kohl, 
 Mr. Leahy, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Biden, Mr. Levin, Ms. Stabenow, 
   Mr. Salazar, Mr. Sununu, Mr. Byrd, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. Tester) 
  introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained in 
the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the Director 
  of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for 
 Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-
               003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating 
to requirements set forth in the State Health Official Letter 07-001, 
dated August 17, 2007, issued by the Director of the Center for 
Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-003, dated May 7, 
2008, from such Center, requiring States that expand the income 
eligibility level for children under the State Children's Health 
Insurance Program (SCHIP) above 250 percent of the Federal poverty 
level to adopt the 5 crowd-out strategies described in the August 17, 
2007, letter with the components identified therein, and to provide 
certain assurances described in such letter, and such rule shall have 
no force or effect.
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