(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall take effect 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(3) NOTICE OF REQUIREMENT TO FURNISH IN-
FORMATION
ABOUT
SCHEDULED
RELEASE
OF
IN-
MATES.—The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
notify each institution with which the Commissioner 
has entered into an agreement under section 
202(x)(3)(B)(i) of the Social Security Act of the 
payment restriction added by paragraph (1) of this 
subsection. 
(c) NOTICE AND TRAINING RELATED TO PRE-RE-
LEASE AGREEMENTS.—Section 202(x)(3)(B) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 402(x)(3)(B)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(v) The Commissioner shall biennially notify each 
State or local institution comprising a jail, prison, penal 
institution, or correctional facility, and any other State or 
local institution a purpose of which is to confine individ-
uals as described in paragraph (1)(A)(ii) of the availability 
of the agreements provided for in this subparagraph. 
‘‘(vi) The Commissioner shall, from time to time, 
offer institutions described in clause (v) training in enter-
ing into the agreements provided for in this subparagraph. 
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‘‘(vii) Within 6 months after the end of each fiscal 
year, the Commissioner shall submit to the Congress a 
written report on the activities conducted pursuant to this 
subparagraph during the fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 5. MEDICAID BENEFITS. 
(a) REINSTATEMENT OF MEDICAID ENROLLMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1902(a) of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. l396b(a)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (72); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (73) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (73) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(74) provide that in the case of any individual 
enrolled for medical assistance under the State plan 
immediately before becoming an inmate of a public 
institution— 
‘‘(A) the enrollment of such individual 
shall be reinstated upon release from such insti-
tution unless and until there is a determination 
that the individual is no longer eligible to be so 
enrolled; and 
‘‘(B) any period of continuous eligibility in 
effect on the date the individual became such 
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an inmate shall be reinstated as of the date of 
the release and the duration of such period 
shall be determined without regard to the pe-
riod in which the individual was such an in-
mate;’’. 
(2) INCREASED FUNDING FOR STATE IMPLE-
MENTATION OF REINSTATEMENT SYSTEM.—Section 
1903 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(aa) INITIAL INCREASE IN FEDERAL MATCHING 
RATE FOR STATE IMPLEMENTING REINSTATEMENT SYS-
TEM.—For the first 4 calendar quarters beginning after 
the date a State modifies its computer system described 
in subsection (a)(3)(A)(i) so that it can easily provide for 
the reinstatement of medical assistance required under 
section 1902(a)(74), such subsection shall be applied as 
if the reference to ‘90 percent’ were a reference to ‘95 
percent’.’’. 
(3) CLARIFICATION
OF
TREATMENT
OF
CER-
TAIN ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Nothing in sec-
tion 1905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396d(a)) shall be construed as prohibiting or pre-
venting the provision of Federal financial participa-
tion under section 1903(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
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1396b(a)) to States for reasonable administrative 
costs of determining eligibility status of individuals 
described in section 1902(a)(74) of such Act, as in-
serted by paragraph (1). 
(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply to individuals who are 
released from being an inmate of a public institution 
on or after the first day of the first calendar quarter 
beginning more than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF CASE MANAGEMENT SERV-
ICES.—The first sentence of section 19l5(g)(1) of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396n(g)(1)) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘and 
for the purpose of providing no more than three case man-
agement services, without regard to the subdivision (A) 
following section 1905(a)(28), in order to engage in plan-
ning for services following release from a public institu-
tion’’. 
Æ 
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