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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 401 

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to eliminate funding shortfalls 

for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 

year 2007. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 25, 2007 

Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for himself, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. COLLINS, 

Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. REED, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. OBAMA, 

Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. KERRY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. 

HARKIN, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mrs. MCCASKILL, and Mr. 

KOHL) 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 eliminate 

funding shortfalls for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal year 2007. 

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 ‘‘Keep Children Covered 

5 Act of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF SCHIP FUNDING SHORTFALLS 

2 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007. 

3 (a) ELIMINATION OF REMAINDER OF FUNDING

4 SHORTFALLS, TIERED MATCH, AND OTHER LIMITATION

5 ON EXPENDITURES.—Section 2104(h) of the Social Secu6 rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1397dd(h)), as added by section 

7 201(a) of the National Institutes of Health Reform Act 

8 of 2006 (Public Law 109–482), is amended— 

9 (1) in the heading for paragraph (2), by strik10 ing ‘‘REMAINDER OF REDUCTION’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘PART OF’’; and 

12 (2) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 

13 following: 

14 ‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS TO ELIMINATE RE15 MAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR 2007 FUNDING SHORT16 FALLS.— 

17 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 

18 allot to each remaining shortfall State described 

19 in subparagraph (B) such amount as the Sec20 retary determines will eliminate the estimated 

21 shortfall described in such subparagraph for the 

22 State for fiscal year 2007. 

23 ‘‘(B) REMAINING SHORTFALL STATE DE24 SCRIBED.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), 

25 a remaining shortfall State is a State with a 

26 State child health plan approved under this title 


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1 for which the Secretary estimates, on the basis 

2 of the most recent data available to the Sec3 retary as of the date of enactment of this para4 graph, that the projected federal expenditures 

5 under such plan for the State for fiscal year 

6 2007 will exceed the sum of— 

7 ‘‘(i) the amount of the State’s allot8 ments for each of fiscal years 2005 and 

9 2006 that will not be expended by the end 

10 of fiscal year 2006; 

11 ‘‘(ii) the amount of the State’s allot12 ment for fiscal year 2007; and 

13 ‘‘(iii) the amounts, if any, that are to 

14 be redistributed to the State during fiscal 

15 year 2007 in accordance with paragraphs 

16 (1) and (2). 

17 ‘‘(C) APPROPRIATION; ALLOTMENT AU18 THORITY.—For the purpose of providing addi19 tional allotments to remaining shortfall States 

20 under this paragraph there is appropriated, out 

21 of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise ap22 propriated, such sums as are necessary for fis23 cal year 2007.’’. 


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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 2104(h) 

2 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397dd(h)) (as so added), is 

3 amended— 

4 (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘subject to 

5 paragraph (4)(B) and’’; 

6 (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘subject to 

7 paragraph (4)(B) and’’; 

8 (3) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ‘‘and (3)’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘(3), and (4)’’; and 

10 (4) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and (3)’’ and 

11 inserting ‘‘(3), and (4)’’. 

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