LIVE Beneficiaries Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8084 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8084

  To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require States to 
   verify certain eligibility criteria for individuals enrolled for 
         medical assistance quarterly, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 19, 2024

  Mr. Bilirakis (for himself and Ms. Craig) 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 require States to 
   verify certain eligibility criteria for individuals enrolled for 
         medical assistance quarterly, 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 ``Leveraging Integrity and 
Verification of Eligibility for Beneficiaries Act'' or the ``LIVE 
Beneficiaries Act''.

SEC. 2. VERIFICATION OF CERTAIN ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR INDIVIDUALS 
              ENROLLED FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.

    Section 1902 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (86), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (87)(D), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (87)(D) the 
                following new paragraph:
            ``(88) provide that the State shall comply with the 
        quarterly eligibility verification requirements under 
        subsection (uu).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(uu) Quarterly Verification of Certain Eligibility Criteria.--For 
purposes of subsection (a)(88), the quarterly eligibility verification 
requirements, beginning January 1, 2025, are as follows:
            ``(1) Quarterly screening to verify enrollee status.--The 
        State shall, on a quarterly basis, review the Death Master File 
        (as such term is defined in section 203(d) of the Bipartisan 
        Budget Act of 2013) to determine whether any individuals 
        enrolled for medical assistance under the State plan (or waiver 
        of such plan) are deceased.
            ``(2) Disenrollment under state plan.--If the State 
        determines that an individual enrolled for medical assistance 
        under the State plan (or waiver of such plan) is deceased, the 
        State shall disenroll such individual from the State plan (or 
        waiver of such plan) and shall discontinue any payments for 
        medical assistance under this title made on behalf of such 
        individual (other than payments for any items or services 
        furnished to such individual prior to the death of such 
        individual).''.
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