State CHIP Flexibility Act of 2017

State CHIP Flexibility Act of 2017

This bill establishes an exception to the requirement that unused Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments to states for FY2017 be reduced by one-third. A state shall receive the exception if: (1) the remaining allotment amounts are with respect to expenditures incurred during any quarter of FY2017, (2) the state submitted a claim under its child health plan after September 30, 2017 and before December 31, 2017, and (3) the state could have alternatively submitted a claim for federal funding under its state Medicaid program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4404 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4404

    To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for an 
  exception to the reduction to State allotments under the Children's 
             Health Insurance Program for fiscal year 2018.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2017

 Mr. Emmer (for himself, Mr. Lewis of Minnesota, Mr. Peterson, and Mr. 
   Paulsen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for an 
  exception to the reduction to State allotments under the Children's 
             Health Insurance Program for fiscal year 2018.

    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 ``State CHIP Flexibility Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION TO REDUCTION TO STATE CHIP ALLOTMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 
              2018.

    Clause (iv) of section 2104(m)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1397dd(m)(2)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
``The previous sentence shall not apply in the case of any such amounts 
that remain so available for fiscal year 2018 to the extent that such 
amounts are with respect to expenditures of the State incurred during 
any quarter in fiscal year 2017 for which the State could have 
submitted a claim for Federal financial participation either under the 
State child health plan or, pursuant to section 2105(g), under the 
State plan under title XIX, and submitted such claim for Federal 
financial participation under the State child health plan after 
September 30, 2017, but before December 31, 2017.''.
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