To delay for 6 months the requirement to use tamper-resistant prescription pads under the Medicaid Program.

Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to delay for six months, from September 30, 2007, through March 31, 2008, the effective date of the requirement to use tamper-resistant prescription pads under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prescribe covered outpatient drugs.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3647 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3647

     To delay for 6 months the requirement to use tamper-resistant 
             prescription pads under the Medicaid Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2007

 Mr. Wilson of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Ross, Mr. Allen, Mr. Berry, and 
Mr. Aderholt) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To delay for 6 months the requirement to use tamper-resistant 
             prescription pads under the Medicaid Program.

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

SECTION 1. 6-MONTH DELAY IN REQUIREMENT TO USE TAMPER-RESISTANT 
              PRESCRIPTION PADS UNDER MEDICAID.

    Effective as if included in the enactment of section 7002(b) of the 
U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq 
Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 110-28, 121 Stat. 
187), paragraph (2) of such section is amended by striking ``September 
30, 2007'' and inserting ``March 31, 2008''.
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