[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST FAIRNESS ACT OF 2015

  Mrs. FISCHER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 178, S. 349.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 349) to amend title XIX of the Social Security 
     Act to empower individuals with disabilities to establish 
     their own supplemental needs trusts.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mrs. FISCHER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 349) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                 S. 349

       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 ``Special Needs Trust Fairness 
     Act of 2015''.

     SEC. 2. FAIRNESS IN MEDICAID SUPPLEMENTAL NEEDS TRUSTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1917(d)(4)(A) of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396p(d)(4)(A)) is amended by 
     inserting ``the individual,'' after ``for the benefit of such 
     individual by''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall apply to trusts established on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

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