[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1400 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1400

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to transition the 
Medicaid thresholds applied for determining acceptable provider taxes, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2015

Mr. Griffith (for himself, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. Bucshon) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to transition the 
Medicaid thresholds applied for determining acceptable provider taxes, 
                        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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicaid Tax Fairness Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. TRANSITION OF MEDICAID THRESHOLDS APPLIED FOR DETERMINING 
              ACCEPTABLE PROVIDER TAXES.

    Section 1903(w)(4)(C)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396b(w)(4)(C)(ii)) is amended by striking the period at the end and 
inserting the following: ``and except that the following percentages 
shall be substituted for `6 percent' each place it appears for portions 
of fiscal years occurring in the following years:
                            ``(I) For 2016, 5.9 percent.
                            ``(II) For 2017, 5.8 percent.
                            ``(III) For 2018, 5.7 percent.
                            ``(IV) For 2019, 5.6 percent.
                            ``(V) For 2020 and each year thereafter, 
                        5.5 percent.''.
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