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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1741

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify that Indian 
   women with breast or cervical cancer who are eligible for health 
  services provided under a medical care program of the Indian Health 
   Service or of a tribal organization are included in the optional 
  medicaid eligibility category of breast or cervical cancer patients 
added by the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 
                                 2000.

    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 ``Native American Breast and Cervical 
Cancer Treatment Technical Amendment Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF INCLUSION OF INDIAN WOMEN WITH BREAST OR 
              CERVICAL CANCER IN OPTIONAL MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY 
              CATEGORY.

    (a) Technical Amendment.--The subsection (aa) of section 1902 of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a) added by section 2(a)(2) of 
the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 
(Public Law 106-354; 114 Stat. 1381) is amended in paragraph (4) by 
inserting ``, but applied without regard to paragraph (1)(F) of such 
section'' before the period at the end.
    (b) BIPA Technical Amendments.--
            (1) Section 1902 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1396a), as amended by section 702(b) of the Medicare, Medicaid, 
        and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (114 
        Stat. 2763A-572) (as enacted into law by section 1(a)(6) of 
        Public Law 106-554), is amended by redesignating the subsection 
        (aa) added by such section as subsection (bb).
            (2) Section 1902(a)(15) of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 1396a(a)(15)), as added by section 702(a)(2) of the 
        Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and 
        Protection Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 2763A-572) (as so enacted 
        into law), is amended by striking ``subsection (aa)'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (bb)''.
            (3) Section 1915(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1396n(b)), as amended by section 702(c)(2) of the Medicare, 
        Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 
        2000 (114 Stat. 2763A-574) (as so enacted into law), is amended 
        by striking ``1902(aa)'' and inserting ``1902(bb)''.
    (c) Effective Dates.--
            (1) Bccpta technical amendment.--The amendment made by 
        subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the 
        enactment of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and 
        Treatment Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-354; 114 Stat. 1381).
            (2) Bipa technical amendments.--The amendments made by 
        subsection (b) shall take effect as if included in the 
        enactment of section 702 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP 
        Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (114 Stat. 
        2763A-572) (as enacted into law by section 1(a)(6) of Public 
        Law 106-554).

            Passed the Senate November 28, 2001.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
107th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1741

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify that Indian 
   women with breast or cervical cancer who are eligible for health 
  services provided under a medical care program of the Indian Health 
   Service or of a tribal organization are included in the optional 
  medicaid eligibility category of breast or cervical cancer patients 
added by the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 
                                 2000.

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