[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2725 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2725

To amend the Budget Control Act of 2011 to protect the Medicare program 
                    from budget cuts under such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2011

Ms. Wilson of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
  to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Budget Control Act of 2011 to protect the Medicare program 
                    from budget cuts under such Act.

    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 Protection Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. NO MEDICARE CUTS.

    (a) No Cuts Through Legislative Language of the Joint Select 
Committee.--
            (1) In general.--Title IV of the Budget Control Act of 2011 
        is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 405. NO MEDICARE CUTS.

    ``(a) In General.--The joint committee shall not include in its 
proposed legislative language submitted pursuant to section 
401(b)(3)(B)(iv) any provision that reduces eligibility, payments, or 
benefits, increases premiums or other cost-sharing, or otherwise 
reduces outlays under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the 
Social Security Act.
    ``(b) No Application of Expedited Procedures.--If the joint 
committee bill includes a provision that violates subsection (a), the 
expedited procedures in section 402 shall not apply to such bill.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents in section 
        1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item 
        relating to section 404 the following new item:

``Sec. 405. No Medicare cuts.''.
    (b) No Cuts Through Fallback Sequestration Process.--Section 
251A(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as inserted by section 302(a) of the Budget Control Act of 2011, 
is amended by striking ``except that the percentage reduction for the 
Medicare programs specified in section 256(d) shall not be more than 2 
percent for a fiscal year'' and inserting ``except that there shall be 
no percentage reduction for the Medicare programs specified in section 
256(d) for any fiscal year and in no case shall there be a reduction 
under such programs pursuant to a sequestration under section 
3101A(f)(6) of title 31, United States Code''.
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