SEC. 2. MEDICARE PART B SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD 
AND WAIVER OF PART B LATE ENROLLMENT 
PENALTY AND MEDIGAP SPECIAL OPEN EN-
ROLLMENT PERIOD FOR CERTAIN INDIVID-
UALS RESIDING ABROAD. 
(a) MEDICARE PART B SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PE-
RIOD; WAIVER OF PART B PENALTY FOR LATE ENROLL-
MENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of any eligible 
individual (as defined in subsection (c)(1)), the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services shall provide 
for a special enrollment period during which the in-
dividual may enroll under part B of title XVIII of 
the Social Security Act. Such period shall be for a 
period of 8 months and shall begin with the first 
month that begins on or after the date the eligible 
individual first resides in the United States after the 
time described in subsection (c)(1)(B). 
(2) COVERAGE PERIOD.—In the case of an eli-
gible individual who enrolls during the special enroll-
ment period provided under paragraph (1), the cov-
erage period under part B of title XVIII of the So-
cial Security Act shall begin on the first day of the 
month following the month in which the individual 
enrolls.
(3) WAIVER
OF
PART
B
LATE
ENROLLMENT 
PENALTY.—In the case of an eligible individual who 
enrolls during the special enrollment period provided 
under paragraph (1), there shall be no increase pur-
suant to section 1839(b) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1395r(b)) in the monthly premium under 
part B of title XVIII of such Act. 
(b) MEDIGAP SPECIAL OPEN ENROLLMENT PE-
RIOD.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an 
issuer of a medicare supplemental policy (as defined in 
section 1882(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ss(g))— 
(1) may not deny or condition the issuance or 
effectiveness of a medicare supplemental policy; and 
(2) may not discriminate in the pricing of the 
policy on the basis of the individual’s health status, 
medical condition (including both physical and men-
tal illnesses), claims experience, receipt of health 
care, medical history, genetic information, evidence 
of insurability (including conditions arising out of 
acts of domestic violence), or disability; 
in the case of an eligible individual who seeks to enroll 
during the 6-month period described in subsection (a)(1). 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘eligible 
individual’’ means an individual— 
(A) who, as of the date of the enactment 
of this Act, has attained 65 years of age and 
was eligible to enroll under part B of title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act, and 
(B) who at the time the individual first 
satisfied paragraph (1) or (2) of section 1836 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395o)— 
(i) was not residing in a State (as de-
termined by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services for purposes of such sec-
tion 1836), and 
(ii) did not elect to enroll (or to be 
deemed enrolled) under section 1837 of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395p) 
during the individual’s initial enrollment 
period. 
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 410(5) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 610(5)), and includes the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.