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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2183 

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for a special 

rule during the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 for the redistribution 

of certain Children’s Health Insurance Program allocations for certain 

shortfall States. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 1, 2017 

Mr. HELLER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Finance 

A BILL 

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide 

for a special rule during the first quarter of fiscal year 

2018 for the redistribution of certain Children’s Health 

Insurance Program allocations for certain shortfall 

States. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CHIP Stability Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CHIP ALLOCATION REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL RULE 

2 FOR CERTAIN SHORTFALL STATES DURING 

3 FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 2018. 

4 Section 2104(f)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 

5 U.S.C. 1397dd(f)(2)) is amended— 

6 (1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 

7 follows: 

8 ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF REDISTRIBUTED

9 AMOUNTS IF INSUFFICIENT AMOUNTS AVAIL10 ABLE.— 

11 ‘‘(i) PRORATION RULE.—Subject to 

12 clause (ii), if the amounts available for re13 distribution under paragraph (1) for a fis14 cal year are less than the total amounts of 

15 the estimated shortfalls determined for the 

16 year under subparagraph (A), the amount 

17 to be redistributed under such paragraph 

18 for each shortfall State shall be reduced 

19 proportionally. 

20 ‘‘(ii) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST QUAR21 TER OF FISCAL YEAR 2018.— 

22 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the pe23 riod beginning on October 1, 2017, 

24 and ending December 31, 2017, with 

25 respect to any amounts available for 

26 redistribution under paragraph (1) for 


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1 fiscal year 2018, the Secretary shall 

2 redistribute under such paragraph 

3 such amounts to each emergency 

4 shortfall State (as defined in sub5 clause (II)) in such amount as is 

6 equal to the amount of the shortfall 

7 described in subclause (II) for such 

8 State and period (as may be adjusted 

9 under subparagraph (C)) before the 

10 Secretary may redistribute such 

11 amounts to any shortfall State that is 

12 not an emergency shortfall State. In 

13 the case of any amounts redistributed 

14 under this subclause to a State that is 

15 not an emergency shortfall State, such 

16 amounts shall be determined in ac17 cordance with clause (i). 

18 ‘‘(II) EMERGENCY SHORTFALL

19 STATE DEFINED.—For purposes of 

20 this clause, the term ‘emergency 

21 shortfall State’ means, with respect to 

22 the period beginning October 1, 2017, 

23 and ending December 31, 2017, a 

24 shortfall State for which the Secretary 

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1 paragraph (A) (unless otherwise speci2 fied in this subclause), that the pro3 jected expenditures under the State 

4 child health plan and under section 

5 2105(g) (calculated as if the reference 

6 under section 2105(g)(4)(A) to ‘2017’ 

7 were a reference to ‘2018’ and insofar 

8 as the allotments are available to the 

9 State under this subsection or sub10 section (e) or (m)) for such period will 

11 exceed the sum of the amounts de12 scribed in clauses (i) through (iii) of 

13 subparagraph (A) for such period, in14 cluding after application of any 

15 amount redistributed under paragraph 

16 (1) before such date of enactment to 

17 such State. A shortfall State may be 

18 an emergency shortfall State under 

19 the previous sentence without regard 

20 to whether any amounts were redis21 tributed before such date of enact22 ment to such State under paragraph 

23 (1) for fiscal year 2018. 

24 ‘‘(III) APPLICATION OF QUALI25 FYING STATE OPTION.—During the 


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1 period described in subclause (I), sec2 tion 2105(g)(4) shall apply to a quali3 fying State (as defined in section 

4 2105(g)(2)) as if under section 

5 2105(g)(4)— 

6 ‘‘(aa) the reference to ‘2017’ 

7 were a reference to ‘2018’; and 

8 ‘‘(bb) the reference to ‘under 

9 subsections (e) and (m) of such 

10 section’ were a reference to 

11 ‘under subsections (e), (f), and 

12 (m) of such section’.’’; and 

13 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub14 paragraph: 

15 ‘‘(D) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 

16 in this paragraph may be construed as pre17 venting a commonwealth or territory described 

18 in subsection (c)(3) from being treated as a 

19 shortfall State or an emergency shortfall 

20 State.’’. 

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