[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1476 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1476

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to enable greater 
 participation by seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in State Medicaid 
             programs for working people with disabilities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 2021

 Mr. Portman (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, and 
 Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
                and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to enable greater 
 participation by seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in State Medicaid 
             programs for working people with disabilities.

    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 ``Supporting and Empowering the Nation 
to Improve Outcomes that Reaffirm Careers, Activities, and Recreation 
for the Elderly Act'', or the ``SENIOR CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWING SENIORS AND MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES TO PARTICIPATE IN 
              STATE MEDICAID PROGRAMS FOR WORKING PEOPLE WITH 
              DISABILITIES.

    Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) is 
amended in sections 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XV) and 1905(v)(1)(A) by 
striking ``, but less than 65,'' each place it appears.
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