Title: Requiring Individual Responsibility in Medicaid Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Requiring Individual Responsibility in Medicaid Act of 2017
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to impose a work requirement as a condition of eligibility.
A program may not apply such a requirement to: (1) a pregnant woman, (2) the sole parent or caretaker of either a child younger than age 6 or a child with disabilities, or (3) an individual younger than age 20 who is married or head of a household and either attends secondary school or participates in employment-related education.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1381 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1381

   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States to 
   impose an individual responsibility requirement for nondisabled, 
     nonelderly, nonpregnant individuals made eligible for medical 
                              assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2017

 Mr. Griffith 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 permit States to 
   impose an individual responsibility requirement for nondisabled, 
     nonelderly, nonpregnant individuals made eligible for medical 
                              assistance.

    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 ``Requiring Individual Responsibility 
in Medicaid Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING STATES TO APPLY AN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY 
              REQUIREMENT FOR NONDISABLED, NONELDERLY, NONPREGNANT 
              ADULTS UNDER MEDICAID. .

    Section 1902 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(nn) Individual Responsibility Requirement Option for 
Nondisabled, Nonelderly, Nonpregnant Adults.--
            ``(1) In general.--Beginning October 1, 2017, subject to 
        paragraph (3), a State may elect through a State plan amendment 
        (or waiver of such plan) to condition medical assistance to a 
        nondisabled, nonelderly, nonpregnant individual under this 
        title upon such an individual's satisfaction of an individual 
        responsibility requirement (as defined in paragraph (2)).
            ``(2) Individual responsibility requirement defined.--In 
        this section, the term `individual responsibility requirement' 
        means, with respect to an individual, the individual's 
        participation in work activities (as defined in section 407(d)) 
        for such period of time as determined by the State, and as 
        directed and administered by the State.
            ``(3) Required exceptions.--States administering an 
        individual responsibility requirement under this subsection may 
        not apply such requirement to--
                    ``(A) a woman to whom subsection (e)(5) applies 
                (relating to eligibility of pregnant women through the 
                end of the month in which the 60-day period (beginning 
                on the last day of her pregnancy) ends);
                    ``(B) an individual who is the only parent or 
                caretaker relative in the family of a child who has not 
                attained 6 years of age or who is the only parent or 
                caretaker of a child with disabilities; or
                    ``(C) an individual who is married or a head of 
                household and has not attained 20 years of age and 
                who--
                            ``(i) maintains satisfactory attendance at 
                        secondary school or the equivalent; or
                            ``(ii) participates in education directly 
                        related to employment.''.
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