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(C) improve fairness for participants; 
(D) reduce the burden on and provide cer-
tainty for future generations; and 
(E) secure the future of the Disability In-
surance program while addressing the needs of 
those with disabilities today and improving the 
determination process. 
(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the 
policy of this concurrent resolution that the House should 
consider legislation on a bipartisan basis to reform the 
Disability Insurance program prior to its insolvency in 
2028 and should not raid the Social Security retirement 
system without reforms to the Disability Insurance sys-
tem. This concurrent resolution assumes reform that— 
(1) promotes opportunity for those trying to re-
turn to work; 
(2) ensures benefits continue to be paid to indi-
viduals with disabilities and their family members 
who rely on them; 
(3) prevents a 7 percent across-the-board ben-
efit cut; and 
(4) improves the Disability Insurance program. 
(d) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.—It is 
the policy of this concurrent resolution that any legislation 
the House considers to improve the solvency of the Dis-
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ability Insurance Trust Fund must also improve the long- 
term solvency of the combined Old Age and Survivors Dis-
ability Insurance Trust Fund. 
SEC. 517. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAID WORK RE-
QUIREMENTS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Medicaid is a Federal-State program that 
provides health care coverage for impoverished 
Americans. 
(2) Medicaid serves four major population cat-
egories: the elderly, the blind and disabled, children, 
and adults. 
(3) The Congressional Budget Office projects 
the average monthly enrollment in Medicaid for fis-
cal year 2018 to be 78 million people. 
(4) Of this 78 million people, 27 million – more 
than one third of the enrollees – are non-elderly, 
non-disabled adults. 
(5) 
Medicaid 
continues 
to 
grow 
at 
an 
unsustainable rate, and will cost approximately one 
trillion dollars per year within the decade, between 
Federal and State spending. 
(6) Congress has a responsibility to preserve 
limited Medicaid resources for America’s most vul-
nerable – those who cannot provide for themselves. 
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(7) Forbes reported last year on a first-of-its- 
kind study conducted by the Foundation for Govern-
ment Accountability. It analyzed data from the State 
of Kansas, which demonstrates that work require-
ments have led to greater employment, higher in-
comes, and less poverty. 
(8) The State of Maine implemented work re-
quirements in 2014, and saw incomes rise for able- 
bodied welfare recipients by an average of 114 per-
cent within a year. 
(9) Work is a valuable source of human dignity, 
and work requirements help lift Americans out of 
poverty by incentivizing self-reliance. 
(b) POLICY ON MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS.— 
It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that— 
(1) Congress should enact legislation that en-
courages 
able-bodied, 
non-elderly, 
non-pregnant 
adults without dependents to work, actively seek 
work, participate in a job-training program, or do 
community service, in order to receive Medicaid; 
(2) Medicaid work requirements legislation 
could include 30 hours per week of work, of which 
20 of those hours should be spent in the core activi-
ties of: public or private sector employment, work 
experience, on-the-job training, job-search or job- 
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readiness assistance program participation, commu-
nity service, or vocational training and education; 
(3) States should be given flexibility to deter-
mine the parameters of qualifying program partici-
pation and work-equivalent experience; 
(4) States should perform regular case checks 
to ensure taxpayer dollars are appropriately spent; 
and 
(5) the Government Accountability Office or the 
Department of Health and Human Services Inspec-
tor General should conduct annual audits of State 
Medicaid programs to ensure proper reporting and 
prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. 
SEC. 518. POLICY STATEMENT ON WELFARE REFORM AND 
SUPPLEMENTAL 
NUTRITION 
ASSISTANCE 
PROGRAM WORK REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program (SNAP) has grown from 17 
million Americans in 2001 to 44 million in 2016. 
(2) The work support role of SNAP has de-
clined, and the program increasingly serves as a re-
placement to work. 
(3) Work requirements were key to the success 
of the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-
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tunity Act (Public Law 104–193), which led to a 
two-thirds reduction in welfare caseloads, a reduc-
tion in child poverty, and an increase in work par-
ticipation. The successful 1996 welfare reform law 
provides a model for improving work requirements in 
other anti-poverty programs. 
(b) POLICY ON WELFARE REFORM AND SNAP WORK 
REQUIREMENTS.—It is the policy of this concurrent reso-
lution that— 
(1) the welfare system should reward work, pro-
vide tools to escape poverty, and expect work-capable 
adults to work or prepare for work in exchange for 
welfare benefits; and 
(2) SNAP should be reformed to improve work 
requirements to help more people escape poverty and 
move up the economic ladder. 
SEC. 519. POLICY STATEMENT ON STATE FLEXIBILITY IN 
SUPPLEMENTAL 
NUTRITION 
ASSISTANCE 
PROGRAM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 
(1) Spending on Supplemental Nutrition Assist-
ance Program (SNAP) has almost quadrupled since 
2001. 
(2) Various factors are driving this growth, but 
one major reason is that while States have the re-
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