[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 259 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 259

  To prevent the territories of the United States from losing current 
                           Medicaid funding.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2017

Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prevent the territories of the United States from losing current 
                           Medicaid funding.

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

SECTION 1.

    Section 1202 of Public Law 111-152, 124 Stat. 1056, is amended by 
adding a new subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) Years After 2017.--For fiscal years 2018, 2019, and each 
subsequent year, the Secretary shall allocate to each territory an 
amount that is not less than the amount provided the territory in 2017 
under subsections (a) and (b) of this section.''.
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