[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 862 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 862

    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

                            February 3, 2017

Mr. Griffith (for himself, Mr. Guthrie, and Mrs. Blackburn) 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 2017''.

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 2018, 5.9 percent.
                            ``(II) For 2019, 5.8 percent.
                            ``(III) For 2020, 5.7 percent.
                            ``(IV) For 2021, 5.6 percent.
                            ``(V) For 2022 and each year thereafter, 
                        5.5 percent.''.
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