To amend title XVIII to provide for a 5-year extension of the authorization for appropriations for certain Medicare rural grants.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for five years and to increase the authorization of appropriations for certain Medicare rural grants.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 4452 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4452

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a 5-year 
extension of the authorization for appropriations for certain Medicare 
                             rural grants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 16, 2002

 Mr. Watkins of Oklahoma (for himself and Mr. Pomeroy) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a 5-year 
extension of the authorization for appropriations for certain Medicare 
                             rural grants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FIVE-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS 
              FOR CERTAIN MEDICARE RURAL GRANTS.

    Section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i-4(j)) 
is amended by striking ``subsection (g)'' and all that follows and 
inserting ``subsection (g)--
            ``(1) $25,000,000 in each of the fiscal years 1998 through 
        2002; and
            ``(2) $40,000,000 in each of the fiscal years 2003 through 
        2007.''.
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