State Flexibility and Workforce Requirement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-886
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-11
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Health care coverage and access

Medicaid

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>State Flexibility and Workforce Requirement Act of 2015</b></p> <p> Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit states to impose workforce requirements for nondisabled individuals made eligible for Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 886 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2015 Mr. Westerman (for himself, Mr. Womack , Mr. Bishop of Utah , Mr. Blum , Mr. Hill , Mr. Rouzer , and Mr. Crawford ) 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 permit States to impose workforce requirements for individuals made eligible for medical assistance under the amendments made by the Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the State Flexibility and Workforce Requirement Act of 2015 . 2. Permitting States to impose workforce requirements for nondisabled individuals made eligible for Medicaid under ACA (a) In general Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) ) is amended— (1) by striking and whose income and inserting whose income ; and (2) by inserting after subsection (k) the following: , and who meet such workforce requirements (such as actively being employed or seeking employment) as the State may, in its discretion, establish with respect to nondisabled individuals . (b) Flexibility in implementation Nothing in the amendments made by subsection (a) shall prevent a State from exercising its discretion in how and when it applies the workforce requirements authorized by such amendments to medical assistance for items and services furnished after the date of the enactment of this Act, including the application of such amendments to individuals for whom a determination of eligibility for such assistance is made before, on, or after such date.