State Flexibility Act

Bill: 113-hr-1472
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2013-04-10
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Medicaid
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>State Flexibility Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to repeal certain state Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) maintenance of effort requirements under titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act.</p> <p>(Under "maintenance of efforts" a state is prohibited from having eligibility standards, methodologies, or procedures under its state Medicaid or CHIP plan that are more restrictive than those in effect on March 23, 2010, under PPACA.)</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1472 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 10, 2013 Mr. Gingrey of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Harper , Mr. McClintock , Mr. Westmoreland , Mr. Cassidy , Mr. Roe of Tennessee , Mr. Terry , Mr. Schock , and Mr. Lance ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To restore the longstanding partnership between States and the Federal Government in managing the Medicaid program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the State Flexibility Act . 2. Repeal of Medicaid and CHIP maintenance of effort requirements under PPACA (a) Repeal of PPACA Medicaid MOE Section 1902 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a) is amended by striking subsection (gg). (b) Repeal of PPACA CHIP MOE Section 2105(d)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397ee(d)(3)) is amended— (1) by striking subparagraph (A); (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and (3) in the paragraph heading, by striking Continuation of eligibility standards for children until October 1, 2019 and inserting Continuity of coverage . (c) Conforming amendments (1) Section 1902(a) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a) ) is amended by striking paragraph (74). (2) Effective January 1, 2014, the paragraph (14) of section 1902(e) added by section 2002(a) of Public Law 111–148 is amended by striking the third sentence of subparagraph (A). (d) Effective date Except as provided in subsection (c)(2), the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.