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S. 1471 (105th)
A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from treating any medicaid-related funds recovered as part of State litigation from one or more tobacco companies as an overpayment under the medicaid program.
Introduced
8 November 1997
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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7 April 2025
Summary
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to declare that any Medicaid-related funds recovered or paid to a State as part of a settlement or judgment reached in litigation the State initiated or pursued against one or more tobacco companies shall not be treated as an overpayment.
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Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 November 1997
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 November 1997
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 8 November 1997
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/senate-bill/1471
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1471