Title: Insular Area Medicaid Coronavirus Recovery Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Insular Area Medicaid Coronavirus Recovery Act
This bill establishes a 100% Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for U.S. territories until the end of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or through September 30, 2021, whichever is later. (Currently, the Medicaid FMAP for all states and U.S. territories is increased by 6.2% until the end of the public health emergency.)
The bill applies retroactively.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6658 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6658

  To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to adjust the 
     temporary increase in the Medicaid Federal medical assistance 
   percentage provided for territories during the COVID-19 emergency 
                    period, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to adjust the 
     temporary increase in the Medicaid Federal medical assistance 
   percentage provided for territories during the COVID-19 emergency 
                    period, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Insular Area Medicaid Coronavirus 
Recovery Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MEDICAID FMAP PROVIDED 
              DURING COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 6008 of the Families 
First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116-127) is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``(a) Temporary Increase in Medicaid FMAP.--
            ``(1) 50 states and district of columbia.--Subject to 
        subsection (b), for each calendar quarter occurring during the 
        period beginning on the first day of the emergency period 
        defined in paragraph (1)(B) of section 1135(g) of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)) and ending on the last day 
        of the calendar quarter in which the last day of such emergency 
        period occurs, the Federal medical assistance percentage 
        determined under section 1905(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1396d(b)) for a State that is one of the 50 States or the 
        District of Columbia shall be increased by 6.2 percentage 
        points.
            ``(2) Territories.--Subject to subsection (b), for each 
        calendar quarter occurring during the period beginning on the 
        first day of the emergency period described in paragraph (1) 
        and ending on the later of the last day of the calendar quarter 
        in which the last day of such emergency period occurs or 
        September 30, 2021, the Federal medical assistance percentage 
        determined under section 1905(b) of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 1396d(b)) for a State that is American Samoa, Guam, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, or 
        the United States Virgin Islands shall be 100 percent.''.
    (b) State Defined.--Section 6008 of the Families First Coronavirus 
Response Act (Public Law 116-127) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(e) State Defined.--In this section, the term `State' has the 
meaning given such term in section 1101(a)(1) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1301(a)(1)) for purposes of title XIX of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 6008 of the Families First Coronavirus Response 
        Act (Public Law 116-127), as amended by subsection (b), is 
        further amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
                        by striking ``A State described in subsection 
                        (a) may not receive the increase described in 
                        such subsection in the Federal medical 
                        assistance percentage for such State'' and 
                        inserting ``A State may not receive the 
                        increase to the Federal medical assistance 
                        percentage of the State described in subsection 
                        (a)(1) or the Federal medical assistance 
                        percentage described in subsection (a)(2), as 
                        applicable''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 
                        ``described in subsection (a)'' and inserting 
                        ``described in subsection (a)(1)''; and
                    (B) in subsection (d), by striking ``a State shall 
                not be ineligible for the increase to the Federal 
                medical assistance percentage of the State described in 
                subsection (a)'' and inserting ``a State shall not be 
                ineligible for the increase to the Federal medical 
                assistance percentage of the State described in 
                subsection (a)(1) or the Federal medical assistance 
                percentage described in subsection (a)(2), as 
                applicable,''.
            (2) Section 1905(ff) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1396d(ff)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ``subject 
                to section 1108(g)(7)(C)'' the following: ``and section 
                6008(a)(2) of the Families First Coronavirus Response 
                Act''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting after ``subject 
                to section 1108(g)(8)(B)'' the following: ``and such 
                section 6008(a)(2)''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply as if included in the enactment of the Families First Coronavirus 
Response Act (Public Law 116-127).
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