[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[S. 579 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.579

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Sunday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty one


                                 An Act


 
 To make a technical correction to the ALS Disability Insurance Access 
                              Act of 2019.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RETROACTIVE ACCESS TO SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS 
INDIVIDUALS WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS).
    (a) In General.--Section 2(b) of the ALS Disability Insurance 
Access Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-250) is amended by striking 
``applications for disability insurance benefits filed after the date 
of enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``applications for disability 
insurance benefits approved after the date that is 5 months before the 
date of enactment of this Act''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the ALS Disability Insurance 
Access Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-250).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.