I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3912 
To provide reimbursement under the Medicaid program to individuals and 
entities that provide voluntary non-emergency medical transportation to 
Medicaid beneficiaries for expenses related to no-load travel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2014 
Ms. DELBENE (for herself, Mr. KIND, and Ms. PINGREE of Maine) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide reimbursement under the Medicaid program to 
individuals and entities that provide voluntary non-emer-
gency medical transportation to Medicaid beneficiaries 
for expenses related to no-load travel. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Recruiting Individuals 
to Drive Our Elders Act of 2014’’ or the ‘‘RIDE Act of 
2014’’. 
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SEC. 2. REIMBURSEMENT FOR NO-LOAD TRAVEL COSTS IN-
CURRED BY VOLUNTEERS PROVIDING NON- 
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION TO 
MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall publish an interim final rule to re-
vise the Medicaid transportation regulations at sections 
431.53 and 440.170 of title 42, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, as necessary, to allow a State plan for medical as-
sistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act to pro-
vide, at the option of the State, reimbursement for costs 
attributable to providing no-load volunteer travel services 
to individuals eligible for medical assistance under the 
State plan who require transportation to receive non-emer-
gency medical treatment. 
(b) NO-LOAD VOLUNTEER TRAVEL SERVICE.—For 
purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘‘no-load volunteer 
travel service’’ means travel services that— 
(1) are provided by a person who, as deter-
mined by a State, local, or tribal government, pro-
vides such services on a volunteer basis (referred to 
in this subsection as a ‘‘volunteer’’); and 
(2) are necessary for the volunteer to— 
(A) travel from the originating location of 
the volunteer to the location of an individual 
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who is eligible for medical assistance under the 
State Medicaid plan and requires transportation 
to receive non-emergency medical treatment (in-
cluding, for purposes of an individual who re-
quested transportation to receive non-emer-
gency medical treatment and subsequently re-
fused such transportation or was not present at 
the requested pick-up location, any travel that 
is necessary for the volunteer to return to their 
originating location); 
(B) for purposes of an individual who has 
been provided transportation by the volunteer 
to receive non-emergency medical treatment and 
is required to remain at the treatment location 
overnight or for an extended period of time (as 
determined appropriate by a State, local, or 
tribal government), return to the originating lo-
cation of the volunteer and, following the com-
pletion of such treatment, travel back to the 
treatment location; and 
(C) following any transportation that is 
necessary to return an individual who has re-
ceived non-emergency medical treatment to 
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