US Congress Senate Bill 1545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)
Status: Introduced on July 12 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

SAME Act of 2017 States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place. Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced FMAP, but bases it on a term of years rather than on specific dates. The bill applies retroactively.

SAME Act of 2017 States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017

Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2688 (Related) 2017-05-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1545/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1545/BILLS-115s1545is.pdf