Empire State Equity Act

Bill: 115-hr-2088
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2017-04-12
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access

Hospital care

Medicaid

Property tax

State and local finance

State and local taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2017-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-04-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Empire State Equity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase federal Medicaid funding for states that received, for FY2016, disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments greater than six times the national average. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payment under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2088 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 12, 2017 Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. Suozzi , Mr. Tonko , Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Ms. Meng , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Crowley , and Mrs. Lowey ) 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 increase certain Federal amounts payable under Medicaid for certain States.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Empire State Equity Act . 2. Increasing certain Federal amounts payable under Medicaid for certain States (a) Increase in FFP for certain States Section 1903 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396b ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (aa) Increase in FFP for certain States Notwithstanding the previous provisions of this section, in the case of a State that has a DSH allotment under section 1923(f) for fiscal year 2016 that was more than 6 times the national average of such allotments for all the States for such fiscal year, in determining the amount that is payable to the State for expenditures in a quarter in a fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 2018) under subsection (a)(1), the amount of such expenditures shall be increased by 1/4 of such amount that would result in an increase in the amount so payable to such State in such fiscal year by not less than $2,300,000,000. . (b) Sense of the Congress It is the Sense of the Congress that the amendment made by subsection (a) should result in all political subdivisions of affected States providing property tax relief for the citizens of such political subdivisions.