[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2217 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2217

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to treat each territory 
as one of the 50 States for purposes of calculating the Federal medical 
           assistance percentage under the Medicaid program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2021

 Miss Gonzalez-Colon 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 treat each territory 
as one of the 50 States for purposes of calculating the Federal medical 
           assistance percentage 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 ``Territory Federal Matching 
Requirement Equity Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF STATUTORY FMAP LIMITATION FOR TERRITORIES.

    Section 1905(b)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1396d(b)(2)) is amended by inserting ``with respect to calendar 
quarters ending on or before September 30, 2021,'' before ``the Federal 
medical assistance percentage''.
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