[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 54 (Thursday, March 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2086-S2087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-22. A concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature 
     of the State of South Dakota urging the United States 
     Congress to amend the Social Security Act to allow states to 
     provide Medicaid services to those persons presumed innocent 
     in jail awaiting trial; to the Committee on Finance.


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  On page S2086, March 28, 2019, in the middle of the third 
column, the following appears: POM-22. A concurrent resolution 
adopted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota urging the 
United States Congress to amend the Social Security Act to allow 
states to provide Medicaid services to those persons presumed 
innocent in jail awaiting trail; to the Committee on Finance.
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: POM-22. A 
concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature of the State of 
South Dakota urging the United States Congress to amend the Social 
Security Act to allow states to provide Medicaid services to those 
persons presumed innocent in jail awaiting trial; to the Committee 
on Finance.


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                   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8

       Whereas, a basic principle of the United States judicial 
     system is that citizens charged with a crime are innocent 
     until proven guilty; and
       Whereas, the United States and South Dakota have determined 
     it is right and appropriate to care for our most vulnerable 
     citizens through the Medicaid program, and county jails are 
     populated by many persons who have serious medical conditions 
     and mental illnesses or who are the parents of small children 
     who qualify for Medicaid benefits; and
       Whereas, the jail population in the United States is 
     growing faster than the prison population, and approximately 
     two-thirds of the jail population consists of those pending 
     disposition who remain innocent until proven guilty and who 
     are currently not being treated equally to those awaiting 
     trial who obtained bail and were released awaiting 
     adjudication; and
       Whereas, providing Medicaid services to persons in jail 
     pending disposition will increase the likelihood that the 
     provision of services is continuous once the person reenters 
     the community; and
       Whereas, section 1905(a)(A) of the Social Security Act 
     prevents South Dakota from providing Medicaid services to 
     persons in jail

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     pending disposition who would otherwise be covered under the 
     Medicaid policies of South Dakota: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, By the Senate of the Ninety-Fourth Legislature of 
     the State of South Dakota, the House of Representatives 
     concurring therein, that the Legislature requests the United 
     States Congress to amend the Social Security Act to allow 
     states to provide Medicaid, services to those persons 
     presumed innocent in jail awaiting trial; and be it further
       Resolved, That the secretary of the senate transmit copies 
     of this resolution to the Speaker and Clerk of the United 
     States House of Representatives, the President and Secretary 
     of the United States Senate, the United States Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services, and to the South Dakota 
     congressional delegation.

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