H.R.1386 - Pay for all your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2009
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) to make permanent the program of Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
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To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) to make permanent the program of Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) to make permanent the program of Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘Pay for all your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SEC. 2. MAKING PERMANENT THE PROGRAM OF FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT OF EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES FURNISHED TO UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS.
(a) In General- Subsection (a)(1) of section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(1) by inserting ‘and for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014’ after ‘each of fiscal years 2005 through 2008’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2015 and each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for such purpose.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(i) IN GENERAL- If the amounts allotted under this paragraph with respect to one or more States for a fiscal year are not fully expended under this section during the fiscal year and there is one or more full expenditure States for the fiscal year, the Secretary shall provide for the reallotment of the aggregate unexpended portion of such amounts (for expenditure under this paragraph in the succeeding fiscal year) among eligible providers in full expenditure States in the same proportion as the ratio of--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(I) the amount of each full expenditure State’s allotment under this paragraph for such fiscal year (determined without regard to this subparagraph); toCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(II) the sum of all the amounts determined for all full expenditure States under subclause (I).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(ii) IF NO FULL EXPENDITURE STATE- If the amounts allotted under this paragraph with respect to one or more States for a fiscal year are not fully expended under this section during the fiscal year and there is no full expenditure State for the fiscal year, the aggregate unexpended portion shall be added to the aggregate amount available for allotment available under paragraph (1) for the succeeding fiscal year.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(iii) FULL EXPENDITURE STATE DEFINED- In this subparagraph, the term ‘full expenditure State’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, a State described in subparagraph (A) which has received an allotment under this paragraph for the fiscal year and which has fully expended such allotment by the end of such fiscal year.’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(D) REALLOTMENT OF UNSPENT FUNDS- The provisions of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to allotments made under this paragraph to a State described in subparagraph (A) in the same manner as such subparagraph (C) applies with respect to allotments made to a State under paragraph (1).’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall apply to allotments for fiscal years beginning before, during, or after fiscal 2010; except that, in applying such amendments for fiscal years that began before the date of the enactment of this Act--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(A) the allotments to a State for such fiscal years under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 1011(b) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) shall be treated as being a single allotment under the respective paragraph for the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(B) such fiscal years shall be treated as being such the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.1386 as Introduced in House Pay for all your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2009
