Medicaid Tax Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1400
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-17
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid

State and local taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Medicaid Tax Fairness Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments to states for medical assistance programs, to reduce from 6% to 5.5% on a graduated basis for 2016-2020 and each subsequent year the indirect guarantee thresholds applied for determining permissible broad-based state or local health care-related provider taxes where a requirement is in effect to hold taxpayers harmless for any portion of the costs of the tax.</p> <p>(Currently the state [or other unit of government] imposing a broad-based health care-related tax or tax on each health care class provides for a direct or indirect non-Medicaid payment to those providers or others paying the tax, which may include an offset or waiver that directly or indirectly guarantees to hold taxpayers harmless for all or any portion of the tax amount. Such taxes are permissible if they are applied at a rate that produces revenues less than or equal to 6% of the revenues received by the taxpayer.)</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1400 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 17, 2015 Mr. Griffith (for himself, Mr. Guthrie , and Mr. Bucshon ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to transition the Medicaid thresholds applied for determining acceptable provider taxes, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicaid Tax Fairness Act of 2015 . 2. Transition of Medicaid thresholds applied for determining acceptable provider taxes Section 1903(w)(4)(C)(ii) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(4)(C)(ii) ) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: and except that the following percentages shall be substituted for 6 percent each place it appears for portions of fiscal years occurring in the following years: (I) For 2016, 5.9 percent. (II) For 2017, 5.8 percent. (III) For 2018, 5.7 percent. (IV) For 2019, 5.6 percent. (V) For 2020 and each year thereafter, 5.5 percent. .