Title: To amend titles II and XIX of the Social Security Act remove the age limit on the Medicaid buy-program, to remove work restrictions on disabled adult children who have reached retirement age, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill (1) expands eligibility for state Medicaid buy-in programs to include individuals under 65 years of age; (2) removes certain work restrictions relating to children's insurance benefits under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program for individuals with disabilities who have reached retirement age; and (3) authorizes reentitlement to such OASDI benefits under certain circumstances.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7101 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7101

 To amend titles II and XIX of the Social Security Act remove the age 
   limit on the Medicaid buy-program, to remove work restrictions on 
disabled adult children who have reached retirement age, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 26, 2018

  Mr. Welch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend titles II and XIX of the Social Security Act remove the age 
   limit on the Medicaid buy-program, to remove work restrictions on 
disabled adult children who have reached retirement age, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REMOVING THE AGE LIMIT ON THE MEDICAID BUY-IN PROGRAM.

    Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XV), by striking ``, but 
        less than 65,''; and
            (2) in section 1905(v)(1)(A), by striking ``, but less than 
        65,''.

SEC. 2. REMOVING WORK RESTRICTIONS ON DISABLED ADULT CHILDREN AFTER 
              RETIREMENT AGE.

    Section 223(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 423(e)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``No benefit'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), no benefit''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a child's 
insurance benefit under section 202(d)(1)(B)(ii) that is payable to an 
individual who has attained retirement age (as defined in section 
216(l)).''.

SEC. 3. REENTITLEMENT TO DAC BENEFIT FOR CERTAIN FORMER DISABLED ADULT 
              CHILDREN.

    Section 202(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402(d)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(11)(A) A child whose entitlement to child's insurance benefits 
on the basis of paragraph (1)(B)(ii) terminated with the termination 
month (as defined for purposes of paragraph (1)(G)) may again become 
entitled to such benefits (provided no event specified in paragraph 
(1)(D) has occurred) beginning with the first month thereafter in which 
the child attains retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)(1)), but 
only if--
            ``(i) the child had attained early retirement age (as 
        defined in section 216(l)(2)) but had not attained retirement 
        age (as defined in section 216(l)(1)) when such benefits were 
        terminated;
            ``(ii) the child engaged in substantial gainful activity 
        during the period after the child attained early retirement age 
        (as so defined), but did not experience medical improvement 
        that could have, by itself, served as the basis for terminating 
        the individual's child's insurance benefits;
            ``(iii) the child is under a disability (as defined in 
        section 223(d)) at the time the child attains retirement age 
        (as so defined); and
            ``(iv) the child has filed application for such 
        reentitlement.
    ``(B) Reentitlement to child's insurance benefits under this 
paragraph shall end with the month preceding the first month in which 
an event specified in paragraph (1)(D) occurs.''.
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