Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4056 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4056

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that medical 
assistance is available to children in foster care who are placed in a 
  qualified residential treatment program under the Medicaid program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2023

    Mr. Bilirakis (for himself, Ms. Castor of Florida, and Ms. Chu) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that medical 
assistance is available to children in foster care who are placed in a 
  qualified residential treatment program 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for 
Children in Foster Care Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING THAT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN IN 
              FOSTER CARE WHO ARE PLACED IN A QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL 
              TREATMENT PROGRAM UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 1905(a)(31)(B) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1396d(a)(31)(B)) is amended by inserting ``and care and 
services provided to any individual who is a child in foster care under 
the responsibility of a State who has been placed, in accordance with 
the requirements of section 475A(c), in a child care institution that 
is a qualified residential treatment program (as defined in section 
472(k)(4)), but only if payments are being made on behalf of such child 
under section 472 with respect to which Federal payments may be made 
under section 474(a)(1) and only if the child continues to be in foster 
care under the responsibility of a State'' after ``section 1915(l)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to medical assistance furnished in calendar quarters 
beginning on or after October 1, 2023.
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