[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 251 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 251

  To repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board in order to ensure 
   that it cannot be used to undermine the Medicare entitlement for 
                             beneficiaries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 1, 2017

Mr. Wyden (for himself, Mr. Heinrich, and Ms. Stabenow) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board in order to ensure 
   that it cannot be used to undermine the Medicare entitlement for 
                             beneficiaries.

    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 ``Protecting Medicare from Executive 
Action Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF THE INDEPENDENT PAYMENT ADVISORY BOARD.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 1899A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395kkk) is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Lobbying cooling-off period.--Paragraph (3) of section 
        207(c) of title 18, United States Code, is repealed.
            (2) GAO study and report.--Section 3403(b) of the Patient 
        Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 1395kkk-1) is 
        repealed.
            (3) MedPAC review and comment.--Section 1805(b) of the 
        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395b-6(b)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (4);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (8) as 
                paragraphs (4) through (7), respectively; and
                    (C) by redesignating the paragraph (9) that was 
                redesignated by section 3403(c)(1) of the Patient 
                Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) 
                as paragraph (8).
            (4) Name change.--Section 10320(b) of the Patient 
        Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is 
        repealed.
            (5) Rule of construction.--Section 10320(c) of the Patient 
        Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) is 
        repealed.
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