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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 751 

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to modify certain administrative eligibility rules relating to children born in the United States to 

Medicaid-eligible mothers. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 2, 2007 

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

to the Committee on Finance 

A BILL 

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to modify 

certain administrative eligibility rules relating to children 

born in the United States to Medicaid-eligible mothers. 

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 ‘‘Guaranteed Access to 

5 Medicaid for Newborns Act of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE ELI2 GIBILITY RULES RELATING TO CHILDREN 

3 BORN IN THE UNITED STATES TO MEDICAID4 ELIGIBLE MOTHERS. 

5 (a) SATISFACTION OF CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENTATION

6 REQUIREMENT.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1903(x)(2) of the 

8 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(x)(2)), as in9 serted by section 6036(a)(2) of the Deficit Reduc10 tion Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–171; 120 Stat. 

11 80) and amended by section 405(c)(1)(A) of division 

12 B of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 

13 (Public Law 109–432), is amended— 

14 (A) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking 

15 ‘‘or’’ at the end; 

16 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 

17 subparagraph (E); and 

18 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 

19 the following new subparagraph: 

20 ‘‘(D) on the basis of section 1902(e)(4) or with 

21 respect to any period of eligibility of such an indi22 vidual that occurs after a period of eligibility on 

23 such basis; or’’. 

24 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 


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1 (A) RETROACTIVE APPLICATION.—The 

2 amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take 

3 effect as if enacted on July 1, 2006. 

4 (B) STATE OPTION FOR RETROACTIVE

5 RESTORATION OF ELIGIBILITY.—In the case of 

6 an individual who, during the period that began 

7 on July 1, 2006, and ends on the date of enact8 ment of this Act, was determined to be ineli9 gible for medical assistance under a State Med10 icaid program solely as a result of the applica11 tion of subsections (i)(22) and (x) of section 

12 1903 of the Social Security Act, but who would 

13 have been determined eligible for such assist14 ance if section 1903(x) of such Act, as amended 

15 by paragraph (1), had been applied to the indi16 vidual, a State may deem the individual to be 

17 eligible for such assistance as of the date that 

18 the individual was determined to be ineligible 

19 for such medical assistance on such basis. 

20 (b) STATE REQUIREMENT TO ISSUE SEPARATE

21 IDENTIFICATION NUMBER.—The second sentence of sec22 tion 1902(e)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 

23 1396a(e)(4)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or the child was 

24 born in the United States to an alien mother for whom 

25 medical assistance for the delivery of the child is made 


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1 available pursuant to section 1903(v), in which case the 

2 State immediately shall issue a separate identification 

3 number for the child upon notification by the facility at 

4 which such delivery occurred of the child’s birth’’ after 

5 ‘‘expires’’. 

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