[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3667 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3667

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase by 10 
 percentage points the required State match for certain newly eligible 
  individuals under the Medicaid program and to apply savings against 
  sequestration reductions otherwise required, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2013

  Mr. Harris (for himself, Mr. Price of Georgia, Mr. Duncan of South 
 Carolina, Mr. Rigell, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Cassidy, Mr. Fleming, and Mr. Burgess) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase by 10 
 percentage points the required State match for certain newly eligible 
  individuals under the Medicaid program and to apply savings against 
  sequestration reductions otherwise required, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. 10 PERCENTAGE POINT INCREASE IN STATE MATCHING FOR NEWLY 
              ELIGIBLE MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES.

    Subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 1905(y)(1) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(y)(1)) are amended by striking ``100 
percent'', ``95 percent'', ``94 percent'', ``93 percent'', and ``90 
percent'' and inserting ``90 percent'', ``85 percent'', ``84 percent'', 
``83 percent'', and ``80 percent'', respectively.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF SAVINGS AGAINST SEQUESTRATION.

    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is authorized 
and directed to increase the discretionary spending limit under section 
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
for the security category by $20,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2014 and 
then to increase the security and the nonsecurity categories for that 
fiscal year each by half of the remaining estimated reduction in new 
budget authority resulting from the enactment of section 1.
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