S. 1545 · 115th Congress
SAME Act of 2017
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States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017 or the SAME Act of 2017
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jul 12, 2017
States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017 or the SAME Act of 2017
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place.
Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced FMAP, but bases it on a term of years rather than on specific dates.
The bill applies retroactively.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: SAME Act of 2017
Also known as: States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017
Latest action (Jul 12, 2017): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jul 12, 2017
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.