[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4263 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4263

 To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend 
   for 1 year the period of temporary increase in the Medicaid FMAP.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2009

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. DeGette, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Pingree of 
  Maine, and Mr. Pierluisi) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to extend 
   for 1 year the period of temporary increase in the Medicaid FMAP.

    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 ``State Medicaid Assistance Extension 
Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. 1-YEAR EXTENSION OF ARRA INCREASE IN MEDICAID FMAP.

    Section 5001 of division B of the American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (2);
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``, but only for 
                the first calendar quarter of fiscal year 2011'' and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(4) fiscal year 2012 is less than the FMAP as so 
        determined for fiscal year 2008, fiscal year 2009 (after the 
        application of paragraph (1)), fiscal year 2010 (after the 
        application of paragraph (2)), or fiscal year 2011 (after the 
        application of paragraph (3)), the greatest of such FMAP for 
        the State for fiscal year 2008, fiscal year 2009, fiscal year 
        2010, or fiscal year 2011 shall be substituted for the State's 
        FMAP for fiscal year 2012, before the application of this 
        section, but only for the first calendar quarter in fiscal year 
        2012.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(4)(C)(ii), by striking ``December 
        2009'' and ``January 2010'' and inserting ``December 2010'' and 
        ``January 2011'', respectively;
            (3) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ``September 30, 
        2011'' and inserting ``September 30, 2012''; and
            (4) in subsection (h)(3), by striking ``December 31, 2010'' 
        and inserting ``December 31, 2011''.
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