Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2003

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 108th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

JCD CostelloSponsor

56 cosponsors · 50 D, 5 R, 1 I

GAD Ackerman AAD Acevedo-Vilá SBD Brown MBD Bordallo BCD Carson WCD Clay RDD DeLauro LED Evans HFD Ford MFD Frost GGD Green LGD Gutiérrez MGR Green RGD Grijalva THD Holden CJD John MKD Kaptur DKD Kildee WLD Lipinski MMD McNulty END Norton GND Napolitano RPR Paul BRD Rush JSD Schakowsky ETD Towns LWD Woolsey DWD Watson TBD Baldwin ZLD Lofgren GMD Miller KMD Meek BSI Sanders MDD Doyle TRD Ryan JBR Bradley GMD Meeks RLR LaHood TLD Lantos DVR Vitter DCD Christensen BFD Frank AHD Hastings DKD Kucinich NLD Lowey BLD Lee JSD Serrano MWD Waters MOD Owens EPD Pastor NRD Rahall CGD Gonzalez VSD Snyder CVD Van Hollen RED Emanuel JMD Matheson

28 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to create an exception from the waiting period otherwise required for Social Security disability insurance benefits for beneficiaries suffering from a medically determined terminal illness with not more than six months…