Title: Medicaid Expansion Parity Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Medicaid Expansion Parity Act of 2017
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place.
Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced FMAP, but bases it on a term of years rather than on specific dates.
The bill applies retroactively.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 335 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 335

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide parity among 
  States in the timing of the application of higher Federal Medicaid 
            matching rates for the ACA-expansion population.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2017

Mr. Lewis of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide parity among 
  States in the timing of the application of higher Federal Medicaid 
            matching rates for the ACA-expansion population.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicaid Expansion Parity Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PARITY IN THE TIMING OF THE APPLICATION OF HIGHER MEDICAID 
              FEDERAL MATCHING RATES FOR ACA NEWLY ELIGIBLE 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1905(y)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396d(y)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``for calendar 
        quarters in 2014, 2015, and 2016'' and inserting ``for calendar 
        quarters in the 12-calendar-quarter period beginning with the 
        first calendar quarter in which the State provides medical 
        assistance to newly eligible individuals'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``for calendar 
        quarters in 2017'' and inserting ``for the next 4 calendar 
        quarters for such State'';
            (3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``for calendar 
        quarters in 2018'' and inserting ``for the next 4 calendar 
        quarters for such State'';
            (4) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``for calendar 
        quarters in 2019'' and inserting ``for the next 4 calendar 
        quarters for such State''; and
            (5) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``for calendar 
        quarters in 2020 and each year thereafter'' and inserting ``for 
        each succeeding calendar quarter for such State''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act.
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