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Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Charitable Giving
Protection Act of 1995''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
TITLE I--AMENDMENTS TO THE SECURITIES LAWS

Sec. 101. Amendment to the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Sec. 102. Amendment to the Securities Act of 1933.
Sec. 103. Amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Sec. 104. Amendment of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Sec. 105. Effective dates and applicability.
TITLE II--CLARIFICATION OF ANTITRUST LAWS

Sec. 201. Exemption from antitrust laws.
Sec. 202. Effective date and applicability.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds that--
(1) charities have served a unique and essential role in
meeting the needs of the American people;
(2) charities have healed the sick, fed the hungry,
sheltered the needy, and educated our children;
(3) in order to ensure that charities can continue to meet
the needs of the American people, the Federal Government should
do everything possible to encourage charitable giving;
(4) charities should be able to raise funds and invest
funds, both on their own and collectively with other charities,
without excessive Government intervention or unnecessary legal
or regulatory requirements;
(5) the Congress, in passing the Technical Corrections Act
of 1988, differentiated between charitable gift annuities and
annuities issued by commercial organizations for profit; and
(6) unlike commercial annuities, charitable gift annuities
are not issued for profit, and their issuance, maintenance, and
investment by charities is not subject to the anticompetitive
prohibitions of the Federal antitrust laws.

TITLE I--AMENDMENTS TO THE SECURITIES LAWS

SEC. 101. AMENDMENT TO THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940.

Section 3(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-
3(c)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new
paragraph:
''(7)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), a pooled income fund,
or any collective trust fund, collective investment fund, or
similar fund maintained by a charitable organization
exclusively for the collective investment and reinvestment of--
''(i) the general endowment fund or other funds of
one or more charitable organizations;
''(ii) assets of a pooled income fund;
''(iii) assets contributed to a charitable
organization in exchange for the issuance of charitable
gift annuities;
''(iv) assets of a charitable remainder trust or of
any other trust, the remainder interests of which are
irrevocably dedicated to any charitable organization;
''(v) assets of a charitable lead trust; or
''(vi) assets of a trust not described in clauses
(i) through (v), the remainder interests of which are
revocably dedicated to a charitable organization.
''(B) A fund described in subparagraph (A), and any
charitable organization that maintains such a fund, shall be
excluded from treatment as an investment company in accordance
with this subsection only if--
''(i) each contributor to a pooled income fund and
each settlor of a trust described in clause (iv), (v),
or (vi) of subparagraph (A) is provided with written
information describing the material terms of the
instruments governing the operation of the pooled
income fund, in the case of a contributor to such fund,
or of the fund in which any assets of such pooled
income fund or such a trust are invested, by the later
of June 30, 1996, or the date of investment in such
fund; and
''(ii) each person soliciting gifts, as described
in subparagraph (A), that will be administered in any
collective trust fund, collective investment fund, or
similar fund maintained by a charitable organization is
either a volunteer or is employed in the overall
fundraising activities of a charitable organization and
receives no commissions or other special compensation
based on the amount of gifts transferred to such fund.
''(C) The exemption provided by subparagraph (A)(vi) shall
terminate on December 31, 1998.
''(D) For purposes of this paragraph--
''(i) a trust or fund is 'maintained' by a
charitable organization that serves as a trustee or
administrator of the trust or fund or that has the
power to remove the trustees or administrators of the
trust or fund and to designate new trustees or
administrators;
''(ii) the term 'pooled income fund' has the same
meaning as in section 642(c)(5) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986;
''(iii) the term 'charitable organization' means an
organization described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of
section 170(c) or section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986;
''(iv) the term 'charitable lead trust' means a
trust described in section 170(f)(2)(B), 2055(e)(2)(B),
or 2522(c)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
''(v) the term 'charitable remainder trust' means a
charitable remainder annuity trust or a charitable
remainder unitrust, as those terms are defined in
section 664(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
and
''(vi) the term 'charitable gift annuity' means an
annuity issued by a charitable organization that is
described in section 501(m)(5) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986.''.

SEC. 102. AMENDMENT TO THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933.

Section 3(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77c(a)) is
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
''(13) Any security issued by or any interest or
participation in any pooled income fund, collective trust fund,
collective investment fund, or similar fund that is deemed not
to be an investment company under section 3(c)(7) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940.''.
SEC. 103. AMENDMENTS TO THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

(a) Exempted Securities.--Section 3(a)(12)(A) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(12)(A)) is amended--
(1) in clause (iv) by striking ''and'' at the end;
(2) by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); and
(3) by inserting after clause (iv) the following new
clause:
''(v) any security issued by or any
interest or participation in any pooled income
fund, collective trust fund, collective
investment fund, or similar fund that is deemed
not to be an investment company under section
3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940;
and''.
(b) Exemption From Broker-Dealer Provisions.--Section 3(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78c(c)) is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
''(54) Charitable organizations.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of this title, a charitable organization, as defined
in section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, or
any trust-
ee, director, officer, employee, or volunteer of such a
charitable organization acting within the scope of such
person's employment or duties, shall not be deemed to be a
'broker', 'dealer', 'municipal securities broker', 'municipal
securities dealer', 'government securities broker', or
'government securities dealer' for purposes of this title
solely because such organization or person buys, holds, sells,
or trades in securities for its own account in its capacity as
trustee or administrator of, or otherwise on behalf of or for
the account of--
''(A) such a charitable organization;
''(B) a fund that is exempt from the provisions of
the Investment Company Act of 1940 under section
3(c)(7) of that Act; or
''(C) a trust or other donative instrument, the
assets of which may be contributed to or invested in
such funds in accordance with section 3(c)(7) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, or the settlors (or
potential settlors) or beneficiaries of any such trust
or other instrument.''.

SEC. 104. AMENDMENT OF THE INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT OF 1940.

Section 202(a)(11) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15
U.S.C. 80b-2(a)(11)) is amended--
(1) by striking ''does not include (A) a bank'' and
inserting ''does not include--
''(A) a bank'';
(2) by striking ''(B) any lawyer'' and inserting the
following:
''(B) any lawyer'';
(3) by striking ''(C) any broker'' and inserting the
following:
''(C) any broker'';
(4) by striking ''(D) the publisher'' and inserting the
following:
''(D) the publisher'';
(5) by striking ''(E) any person'' and inserting the
following:
''(E) any person'';
(6) by striking ''or (F) such other'' and inserting the
following:
''(G) such other''; and
(7) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following new
subparagraph:
''(F) any charitable organization, as defined in
section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
or any trustee, director, officer, employee, or
volunteer of such a charitable organization acting
within the scope of the employment or duties of such
person, whose advice, analyses, or reports are provided
only to--
''(i) any such charitable organization;
''(ii) a fund that is exempt from the
Investment Company Act of 1940 under section
3(c)(7) of that Act, or the trustees or
administrators of such fund; or
''(iii) a trust or other donative
instrument, the assets of which may be
contributed to or invested in such fund in
accordance with section 3(c)(7) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, or the
trustees, administrators, settlors (or
potential settlors), or beneficiaries of any
such trust or other instrument; or''.

SEC. 105. EFFECTIVE DATES AND APPLICABILITY.

This title and the amendments made by this title shall apply in all
administrative and judicial actions pending on or commenced after the
date of enactment of this Act, as a defense to any claim that any
person, security, interest, or participation of the type described in
this title and the amendments made by this title is subject to the
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, or the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940, except as otherwise specifically provided in those Acts.

SEC. 106. PREEMPTION OF STATE LAW.

(a) Registration Requirements.--A security issued by or any
interest or participation in any pooled income fund, collective trust
fund, collective investment fund, or similar fund that is exempt from
the Investment Company Act of 1940 under section 3(c)(7) of that Act,
and the offer or sale thereof, shall be exempt from any law of a State
that requires registration or qualification of securities.
(b) Treatment of Charitable Organizations.--No charitable
organization, or any trustee, director, officer, employee, or volunteer
of a charitable organization acting within the scope of such person's
employment or duties, shall be required to register as, or be subject
to regulation as, a dealer, broker, agent, or investment adviser under
the laws of any State solely because such organization or person buys,
holds, sells, or trades in securities for its own account in its
capacity as trustee or administrator of, or otherwise on behalf of or
for the account of--
(1) a charitable organization;
(2) a fund that is exempt from the Investment Company Act
of 1940 under section 3(c)(7) of that Act; or
(3) a trust or other donative instrument, the assets of
which may be contributed to or invested in such funds in
accordance with section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act
of 1940, or the settlors (or potential settlors) or
beneficiaries of any such trusts or other instruments.
(c) State Action.--Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), during
the 3-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a
State may enact a statute that specifically refers to this section and
provides prospectively that this section shall not preempt the laws of
that State referred to in this section.
(d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
(1) the term ''charitable organization'' means an
organization described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section
170(c) or section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986;
(2) the term ''security'' has the same meaning as in
section 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(3) the term ''State'' means each of the several States of
the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

TITLE II--CLARIFICATION OF ANTITRUST LAWS

SEC. 201. EXEMPTION FROM ANTITRUST LAWS.

(a) In General.--The activities of a charitable organization
relating to the issuance, maintenance, or investment of a charitable
gift annuity are exempt from the application of the antitrust laws.
(b) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
(1) the term ''antitrust laws'' means--
(A) the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. 1 et seq.);
(B) the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.);
(C) the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41
et seq.); and
(D) any State law that is similar to the Acts
referred to in subparagraphs (A) through (C).
(2) the term ''charitable organization'' means an
organization described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section
170(c) or section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986;
(3) the term ''charitable gift annuity'' means an annuity
issued by a charitable organization that is described in
section 501(m)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
(4) the term ''State'' means each of the several States of
the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
(c) State Action.--Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), during
the 3-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a
State may enact a statute that specifically refers to this section and
provides prospectively that this section shall not preempt the laws of
that State referred to in this section.

SEC. 202. EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY.

The exemption provided for in section 201 shall apply in any
judicial or administrative action pending on or commenced after the
date of enactment of this Act and shall serve as a defense to any claim
that the sale or issuance of a charitable gift annuity is subject to
any provision of antitrust laws.

Output: TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Amendments to the Securities Laws
Title II: Clarification of Antitrust Laws
Charitable Giving Protection Act of 1995 -
Title I: Amendments to the Securities Laws
- Exempts from the jurisdiction of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 any security issued by or any interest or participation in any pooled income fund, collective trust fund, collective investment fund, or similar fund deemed not to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (charitable gift annuities).
Preempts State law to extend the charitable gift annuities exemption from its jurisdiction over: (1) securities registration or qualification requirements; and (2) any charitable organization regulation.
Permits a State to enact a statute that specifically refers to this Act and provides prospectively that it does not preempt its laws.
Title II: Clarification of Antitrust Laws
- Exempts charitable gift annuities from application of the antitrust laws.

Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. CONSERVATION FLEX PROGRAM OPTION.

(a) Establishment of Program.--The Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by inserting after section 115 (7 U.S.C. 1445k) the following
new section:
''SEC. 116. CONSERVATION FLEX PROGRAM OPTION.

''(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a voluntary
conservation flex program option to assist producers of agricultural
commodities in adopting integrated, site-specific farm management plans
through the reduction of farm program barriers to resource stewardship
practices and systems.
''(b) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section:
''(1) The term 'program' means the conservation flex
program option established under this section.
''(2) The term 'plan' means a site-specific farm management
plan prepared by the producer and approved by the Secretary.
''(3) The term 'alternative crops' means experimental and
industrial crops which conserve soil and water.
''(4) The term 'breeding cattle' means bulls, dams, and
heifers held solely for the production of calves, but shall not
include weaned calves being grown for slaughter or dairy
cattle.
''(5) The term 'legume' means any legume, including
alfalfa, clover, lentils, lupine, medic, peas, soybeans, and
vetch grown for use as a forage, green manure, or biomass
feedstock, but not including any pulse crop from which the
seeds are harvested and sold for purposes other than use as
seed for planting.
''(6) The term 'resource-conserving crop' means legumes,
grasses, brassica cover crops and forages, alternative crops,
any interseeded or relay-planted combination of such crops, any
interseeded or relay-planted combination of such crops and
small grains, and such other crops as the Secretary may
designate.
''(7) The term 'resource-conserving crop rotation' means a
crop rotation which includes at least one resource-conserving
crop and that reduces erosion, maintains or improves soil
fertility, tilth and structure, interrupts pest cycles, or
conserves water.
''(8) The term 'rotational grazing' means planting forage,
dividing pastures into paddocks, and using grazing rotations to
increase forage quality and production, improve vegetative
cover, and reduce sediment and nutrient runoff.
''(9) The term 'small grains' means any small grain,
including barley, buckwheat, oats, rye, spelt, and triticale,
but not including wheat, except for wheat grown for nonhuman
consumption.
''(10) The term 'special conservation practices' means
field borders, contour grass strips, grass waterways, filter
strips, grass windbreaks, buffer areas, wildlife habitat
plantings, habitat plantings for beneficial organisms that aid
in the control of pests, and such other practices as the
Secretary may designate.
''(c) Eligible Producers.--To be eligible to participate in the
program, a producer must prepare and submit to the Secretary for
approval a site-specific farm management plan, which may at the
producer's option be integrated with any conservation plan developed
pursuant to section 1212 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C.
3812) and any other conservation or natural resource plan required for
producer participation in any program within the jurisdiction of the
Secretary.
''(d) Agreements.--Upon the approval of a plan submitted by a
producer under subsection (c), the Secretary shall enter into an
agreement with the producer that specifies the crop acreage bases being
enrolled in the program. The agreement shall be for a period of not
less than one year, nor more than seven years, as determined by the
producer. The agreement may be renewed upon the mutual agreement of the
Secretary and the producer.
''(e) Producer Responsibilities Under Agreement.--Under the terms
of an agreement entered into under subsection (d), a producer shall
agree--
''(1) to actively comply with the terms and conditions of
the applicable plan, as approved by the Secretary;
''(2) to devote to a resource-conserving crop--
''(A) not less than 15 percent of the crop acreage
bases of the producer enrolled under such program; or
''(B) not less than 15 percent of the producer's
total crop acres, if the sum of resource-conserving
crop acres on non-base acres and total crop acreage
bases on the farm does not exceed the county average
base-to-cropland ratio; and
''(3) to keep such records as the Secretary may reasonably
require for purposes of program evaluation.
''(f) Requirements of the Plan.--To be approved by the Secretary, a
plan submitted by a producer must--
''(1) specify the crop acreage bases the producer chooses
to enroll in the program;
''(2) describe the resource-conserving crop rotation,
special conservation practices, rotational grazing, or biomass
production operations and practices to be implemented and
maintained on such acreage during the agreement period which
fulfill the purposes of the program;
''(3) contain a schedule for the implementation,
improvement and maintenance of the resource-conserving crop
rotation, special conservation practices, rotational grazing,
or biomass operations and practices described in the plan; and
''(4) contain such other terms as the Secretary may
require.
''(g) Program Administration, Certification, and Termination.--
''(1) Program administration, technical assistance, and
flexibility.--
''(A) Administration.--The program shall be
administered by the Secretary.
''(B) Technical assistance.--In administering the
program, the Secretary, in consultation with the local
conservation districts and any State or local
authorities deemed appropriate by the Secretary, shall
provide technical assistance to a producer in
developing and implementing a plan, evaluating the
effectiveness of a plan, and assessing the costs and
benefits of farming operations and practices. If
requested by a producer, the Secretary shall provide
technical assistance to help the producer comply with
Federal, State, and local requirements designed to
protect soil, wetlands, wildlife habitat, the quality
of ground water and surface water, or other natural
resources.
''(C) Flexibility.--In administering the program,
the Secretary shall provide sufficient flexibility for
a producer to revise the producer's plan to respond to
changes in market conditions, weather, or technology or
to adjust and modify the farming operation, except that
such revisions must be consistent with the purposes of
the program and approved by the Secretary.
''(2) Certification.--The Secretary shall certify producer
compliance with the terms and conditions of the plan.
''(3) Termination.--The Secretary may terminate an
agreement entered into with a producer under this program if--
''(A) the producer agrees to such termination; or
''(B) the producer violates the terms and
conditions of such agreement.
''(h) Program Rules.--
''(1) Base and yield protection.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary shall not reduce crop acreage
bases or farm program payment yields as a result of the
planting of a resource-conserving crop.
''(2) Payment acres.--Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Secretary shall not reduce any farm program loans,
payments, or benefits of a program participant as a result of
the planting of a resource-conserving crop.
''(3) Payment rate.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary shall provide deficiency payments on
resource-conserving crop acreage eligible for payments at a
rate not less than the projected deficiency payment rate, as
determined and announced each year by the Secretary prior to
the period during which producers may agree to participate in
the program.
''(4) Payment acre protection.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary shall not reduce the payment
acres or the established price for a program participant who
has entered into an agreement with the Secretary for a fixed
period of time.
''(5) Resource-conserving crops on normal flex acreage.--
Acreage devoted to resource-conserving crops under this program
may, at the discretion of the producer, be designated as normal
flex acreage.
''(6) Adjustments in production adjustment requirements.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall
make fair and equitable adjustments in acreage limitation
requirements applicable to a producer participating in the
program giving due consideration to crop rotation, special
conservation practices, rotational grazing, biomass production,
and other appropriate factors resulting from the implementation
of a plan. If the Secretary determines that the reduction in
program crop production on a participating farm referred to in
the preceding sentence will equal or exceed any reduction in
crop production which, in the absence of participation in the
program, would occur as a result of acreage limitation
requirements, the Secretary shall waive such acreage limitation
requirements for the farm. If the resource conserving crop
includes a farm program feed grain crop planted on the base
acres of another farm program feed grain crop, the Secretary
shall take into account the established or county average yield
of the two feed grains for the purposes of making the
adjustment or waiver.
''(7) Total base acreage flexibility.--Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Secretary shall allow participants
in this program to plant farm program crops and oilseeds in any
proportion on a producer's total acreage of farm program crop
base and historic oilseeds acreage without affecting farm
program payments.
''(8) Crop insurance.--Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, acreage devoted to resource-conserving crops under this
program shall be eligible for crop insurance pursuant to the
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
''(9) Haying and grazing restriction.--
''(A) In general.--The Secretary shall not make any
farm program payments to a producer, who is otherwise
eligible to receive such payments, for acreage enrolled
in the program if the producer, during the consecutive
five month period in each State in which haying and
grazing of conserving use acres may be prohibited under
the provisions of this Act, grazes breeding cattle or
nursing calves or harvests and sells hay on payment
acres.
''(B) Transition option.--The restriction in
subparagraph (A) shall not apply in the case of a
producer who agrees to retire all base acreage enrolled
in the program at the end of the agreement period.
''(C) Emergency haying and grazing.--The Secretary
shall release acreage devoted to resource-conserving
crops for emergency haying and grazing as the result of
a natural disaster when the Secretary permits unlimited
haying and grazing on--
''(i) reduced acreage under this Act;
''(ii) acreage devoted to a conservation
use under this Act;
''(iii) acreage diverted from production
under a land diversion program established
under this Act; or
''(iv) acreage enrolled in the conservation
reserve program under the Food Security Act of
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.).''.
(b) Conforming Repeal.--Section 1451 of the Food, Agriculture,
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5822) is repealed.

Output: Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary conservation flex program which will permit producers to adopt integrated site-specific farm management plans. Includes within such plans resource-conserving crops, crop rotation, and rotational grazing.

Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Huntington's Disease Parity Act of
2008''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Huntington's Disease is a progressive degenerative
neurological disease that causes total physical and mental
deterioration over a 12 to 15 year period. It affects 30,000
patients and 200,000 individuals are genetically ''at risk'' in
the United States.
(2) Huntington's Disease has a triad of clinical features,
including motor abnormalities, dementia, and disorders of mood
and perception. While movement disorders are most commonly
associated with Huntington's Disease, early symptoms are often
emotional and psychiatric. This may include personality
changes, irritability, mood swings, depression, obsessive-
compulsive behavior, inability to concentrate, and decreased
motivation.
(3) Because of its incapacitating nature, people with
Huntington's disease, including those in the early stages of
the disease, are unable to retain employment. As a result, many
people with Huntington's Disease rely solely on Social Security
Disability Income.
(4) Despite significant advances in medicine and greater
understanding of disability, the Social Security Administration
has not comprehensively revised its rules for the medical
evaluation of neurological disabilities since 1985.
(5) Because people with Huntington's Disease are frequently
not employed, many families have lost their employer-provided
health insurance benefits. As a result, many people with
Huntington's Disease do not receive necessary treatment during
the early stages of the disease.
(6) In 2000, the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services
waived the 24-month waiting period requirement for people
disabled by ALS (amyotropic lateral sclerosis), a degenerative
neurological condition similar to Huntington's Disease.

SEC. 3. REVISION OF THE MEDICAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING DISABILITY
CAUSED BY ADULT-ONSET HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE.

The Commissioner of Social Security shall revise the regulations
prescribed by the Commissioner set forth as Appendix 1 to subpart P of
part 404 of title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations (relating to
the listing of impairments, published by the Social Security
Administration as ''Disability Evaluation Under Social Security'', and
commonly referred to as the ''Blue Book''), as follows:
(1) The Commissioner shall insert after 11.00G the
following:
''H. Huntington's Disease. Huntington's Disease is an inherited
neuropsychiatric disorder that is progressive and terminates in death
of the affected person. Recovery or remission never occurs. Treatment
is ineffective in terms of halting or slowing the progression of the
disease. The usual age of adult onset is between the ages of 30 and 50,
although the age of adult onset may be younger or older. Incapacitation
occurs relatively early in the course of this debilitating illness with
progression to total disability and dependency for all activities of
daily living. There are three characteristic clinical features: (1)
loss of ability to control bodily movements; (2) loss of ability to
think and act quickly, to learn new material and to remember, and (3)
apathy, personality changes, irritability, mood swings, depression,
anxiety, inability to concentrate, decreased motivation, obsessive-
compulsive disorder, and severe depression. Individuals with
Huntingon's Disease also exhibit poor social judgment and may be
irritable and aggressive. Inability to work is due to a combination of
cognitive disturbance, behavioral or mood changes, poor coordination of
voluntary movements, and the presence of involuntary movements.
Individuals with Huntingon's Disease, even in the relatively early
stages, have particular difficulty with decision-making, multi-tasking,
and performing under time pressure or with the stress of interpersonal
interactions. The course of the disease varies among individuals and
families. The cognitive and behavioral problems may become debilitating
before disorganization of motor functions. For other individuals, the
motor dysfunction may appear first.''.
(2) The Commissioner shall insert after 11.14 the
following:
''11.15 Huntington's Disease. With:
''A. disorganization of motor function as described in
11.04B; or
''B. chronic brain syndrome. Evaluate under 12.02, 12.04,
and 12.06.''.
(3) The Commissioner shall remove the reference in 11.17 to
''Huntington's Chorea''.

SEC. 4. REVISION OF THE MEDICAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING DISABILITY
CAUSED BY JUVENILE HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE.

The Commissioner of Social Security shall revise further the
regulations described in section 3 as follows:
(1) The Commissioner shall insert after 111.00E the
following:
''F. Juvenile Huntington's Disease. While there is no symptom or group
of symptoms that are absolutely required for the diagnosis of juvenile
Huntington's Disease, most affected children offer several of the
following features at the time that the diagnosis is made: motor
dysfunction, characterized by rigidity and dystonia, seizures,
declining cognitive function, behavioral or psychiatric problems such
as depression, aggressiveness and impulsiveness, irritability, mood
swings, and obsessions. Huntington's Disease is a hereditary disorder
and individuals with very early onset of Huntington's Disease are far
more likely to have an affected father than an affected mother.''.
(2) The Commissioner shall insert after 111.09 the
following:
''111.10. Junvenile Huntington's Disease. With:
''A. Motor dysfunction. Evaluate under 111.06; or
''B. Behavioral or psychiatric problems. Evaluate under
112.02, 112.06, and 112.08.''.

SEC. 5. ELIMINATION OF 24-MONTH MEDICARE DISABILITY WAITING PERIOD IN
CASES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABLING HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE.

(a) In General.--Section 226(h) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 426(h)) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
inserting ''or Huntington's Disease'' after ''amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS)''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall
apply to benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act with
respect to items and services furnished in months beginning after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
Output: Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2008 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical criteria for evaluating disability caused by adult-onset and juvenile Huntington's Disease.

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.