Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2013

Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of revocable trusts for the benefit of an individual for purposes of meeting income requirements for Medicaid coverage.

Extends the supplemental needs trust exemption from treatment of a trust as resources available to the individual to supplemental needs trusts for Medicaid beneficiaries established by those beneficiaries.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1672 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1672

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to empower individuals 
  with disabilities to establish their own supplemental needs trusts.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 7, 2013

 Mr. Nelson (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Enzi) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to empower individuals 
  with disabilities to establish their own supplemental needs trusts.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. FAIRNESS IN MEDICAID SUPPLEMENTAL NEEDS TRUSTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1917(d)(4)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1396p(d)(4)(A)) is amended by inserting ``the individual,'' 
after ``for the benefit of such individual by''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to trusts established on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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