Senior Guardianship Social Security Protection Act of 2019

Senior Guardianship Social Security Protection Act of 2019

This bill requires the Social Security Administration to establish agreements with each state to share certain information on a monthly basis about the guardianship arrangements of individuals who are entitled to Social Security retirement benefits or Supplemental Security Income payments.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5380 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5380

      To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require the 
Commissioner of Social Security to enter into agreements with States to 
  share data related to individuals subject to guardianship, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2019

  Mr. Crist (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, and Mr. Soto) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require the 
Commissioner of Social Security to enter into agreements with States to 
  share data related to individuals subject to guardianship, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Senior Guardianship Social Security 
Protection Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING RELATED TO STATE GUARDIANSHIP STATUS.

    (a) In General.--Section 205(j)(11) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 405(j)(11)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C) 
        and by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
    ``(B) The Commissioner of Social Security shall--
            ``(i) enter into agreements with each State for the purpose 
        of sharing and matching data, on an automated monthly basis, in 
        the system of records of the Social Security Administration 
        with the system of records of each State to identify 
        individuals subject to guardianship in the State who, with 
        respect to such month, are entitled to benefits under this 
        title that are certified for payment to a representative payee; 
        and
            ``(ii) in any case in which the guardianship arrangement 
        for such an individual has changed in such month, redetermine 
        the appropriate representative payee for such individual.''; 
        and
            (2) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), 
        by amending clause (i) to read as follows--
            ``(i) the term `State'--
                    ``(I) when used in subparagraph (A), has the 
                meaning given such term for purposes of part E of title 
                IV; and
                    ``(II) when used in subparagraph (B), has the 
                meaning given such term for purposes of subtitle B of 
                title XX;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to months beginning on or after the date that is 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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