[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2088 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2088

   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase certain 
       Federal amounts payable under Medicaid for certain States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2017

Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney 
    of New York, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
 Serrano, Mr. Crowley, and Mrs. Lowey) 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 increase certain 
       Federal amounts payable under Medicaid for certain States.

    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 ``Empire State Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASING CERTAIN FEDERAL AMOUNTS PAYABLE UNDER MEDICAID FOR 
              CERTAIN STATES.

    (a) Increase in FFP for Certain States.--Section 1903 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(aa) Increase in FFP for Certain States.--Notwithstanding the 
previous provisions of this section, in the case of a State that has a 
DSH allotment under section 1923(f) for fiscal year 2016 that was more 
than 6 times the national average of such allotments for all the States 
for such fiscal year, in determining the amount that is payable to the 
State for expenditures in a quarter in a fiscal year (beginning with 
fiscal year 2018) under subsection (a)(1), the amount of such 
expenditures shall be increased by \1/4\ of such amount that would 
result in an increase in the amount so payable to such State in such 
fiscal year by not less than $2,300,000,000.''.
    (b) Sense of the Congress.--It is the Sense of the Congress that 
the amendment made by subsection (a) should result in all political 
subdivisions of affected States providing property tax relief for the 
citizens of such political subdivisions.
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