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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1022 

To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to eliminate the remainder 

of funding shortfalls for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program 

(SCHIP) for fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 29, 2007 

Mr. CHAMBLISS (for himself and Mr. ISAKSON) 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 

the remainder of funding shortfalls for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal 

year 2007, and for other purposes. 

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

3 SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF REMAINDER OF SCHIP FUND4 ING SHORTFALLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2104(h) of the Social Se6 curity 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, is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 

2 (7) as paragraphs (5) through (8), respectively; 

3 (2) by inserting after paragraph (3), the fol4 lowing: 

5 ‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS TO ELIMINATE RE6 MAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR 2007 FUNDING SHORT7 FALLS.— 

8 ‘‘(A) ALLOTMENT AUTHORITY.—From the 

9 amounts made available under subparagraph 

10 (D) for additional allotments under this para11 graph, subject to subparagraph (C), the Sec12 retary shall allot to each remaining shortfall 

13 State described in subparagraph (B) such 

14 amount as the Secretary determines will elimi15 nate the estimated shortfall described in such 

16 subparagraph for the State for fiscal year 2007. 

17 ‘‘(B) REMAINING SHORTFALL STATE DE18 SCRIBED.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), 

19 a remaining shortfall State is a State with a 

20 State child health plan approved under this title 

21 for which the Secretary estimates, on the basis 

22 of the most recent data available to the Sec23 retary as of March 31, 2007, that the projected 

24 Federal expenditures under such plan for the 


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1 State for fiscal year 2007 will exceed the sum 

2 of— 

3 ‘‘(i) the amount of the State’s allot4 ments for each of fiscal years 2005 and 

5 2006 that will not be expended by the end 

6 of fiscal year 2006; 

7 ‘‘(ii) the amount of the State’s allot8 ment for fiscal year 2007; and 

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

10 be redistributed to the State during fiscal 

11 year 2007 in accordance with paragraphs 

12 (1) and (2). 

13 ‘‘(C) PRORATION RULE.—If the amount 

14 available under subparagraph (D) is less than 

15 the total amount of the estimated shortfalls de16 termined by the Secretary under subparagraph 

17 (A), the amount of the allotment for each re18 maining shortfall State determined under such 

19 subparagraph shall be reduced proportionally. 

20 ‘‘(D) APPROPRIATION; ALLOTMENT AU21 THORITY.—For the purpose of providing addi22 tional allotments to remaining shortfall States 

23 under this paragraph there is appropriated, out 

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1 cal year 2007, not to exceed $750,000,000. 

2 Amounts appropriated pursuant to the pre3 ceding sentence are designated as an emergency 

4 requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. 

5 Res. 95 (109th Congress).’’. 

6 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such section is 

7 further amended— 

8 (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘para9 graph (4)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (5)(B)’’; 

10 (2) in paragraph (2)— 

11 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 

12 ‘‘REMAINDER OF REDUCTION’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘PART’’; 

14 (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking 

15 ‘‘paragraph (5)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 

16 (6)(B)’’; and 

17 (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

18 ‘‘paragraph (4)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 

19 (5)(B)’’; 

20 (3) in paragraph (5) (as redesignated by sub21 section (a)(1))— 

22 (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘or 

23 allotted’’ after ‘‘redistributed’’; and 

24 (B) in subparagraph (B)— 


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1 (i) by inserting ‘‘or allotted’’ after 

2 ‘‘redistributed’’; 

3 (ii) by striking ‘‘To the’’ and inserting 

4 the following: 

5 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clause 

6 (ii), to the’’; and 

7 (iii) by adding at the end the fol8 lowing new clause: 

9 ‘‘(ii) EXCEPTION FOR REMAINING

10 SHORTFALL STATES WITH LOWEST THIRD

11 RANKING OF UNINSURED CHILDREN.— 

12 Only with respect to the amounts allotted 

13 under paragraph (4) to a remaining short14 fall State described in subparagraph (B) of 

15 such paragraph, clause (i) shall not apply 

16 to any such State that, on the basis of the 

17 most recent American Community Survey 

18 of the Bureau of the Census (or, until such 

19 data is available, on the basis of the 3 

20 most recent Annual Social and Economic 

21 Supplements of the Current Population 

22 Survey of the Bureau of the Census), 

ranks in the lowest 1 23 ⁄3 of States in terms 

24 of the State’s percentage of low-income 

25 children without health insurance.’’; 


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1 (4) in subparagraph (6)(A) (as so redesig2 nated), by striking ‘‘and (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘(3), 

3 and (4)’’; and 

4 (5) in paragraph (7) (as so redesignated)— 

5 (A) in the first sentence— 

6 (i) by inserting ‘‘or allotted’’ after 

7 ‘‘redistributed’’; and 

8 (ii) by inserting ‘‘or allotments’’ after 

9 ‘‘redistributions’’; and 

10 (B) in the second sentence, by striking 

11 ‘‘and (3), in accordance with paragraph (5)’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘(3), and (4) in accordance with 

13 paragraph (6)’’. 

14 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SSI ASSET VERIFICATION DEM15 ONSTRATION TO MEDICAID. 

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), the Sec17 retary of Health and Human Services shall collaborate 

18 with the Commissioner of Social Security to provide for 

19 the use, for purposes of verifying financial eligibility for 

20 medical assistance under State plans under title XIX of 

21 the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), of the 

22 system administered by the Commissioner (under section 

23 1631(e)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 

24 1383(e)(1)(B)(ii)) under which the Commissioner may ob25 tain information held by financial institutions in order to 


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1 verify eligibility for benefits under title XVI of such Act 

2 (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.). 

3 (b) LIMITATION.—For purposes of this section, use 

4 of the system described in subsection (a), and the informa5 tion obtained through such system, shall be limited to de6 terminations of eligibility for medical assistance in States 

7 in which such system is being used by the Commissioner 

8 to verify eligibility for benefits under such title XVI. 

9 (c) SHARING BY COMMISSIONER OF INFORMATION

10 OBTAINED FROM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.—Notwith11 standing the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 

12 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.) or any other provision of law, infor13 mation obtained by the Commissioner from financial insti14 tutions under the system described in subsection (a) may, 

15 for purposes of carrying out this section, be shared with 

16 the agencies of States specified in subsection (b) which 

17 are administering the plans of such States under title XIX 

18 of the Social Security Act. 

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