Pub. L. 116-20, tit. VIII, sec. 802

Sec. 802. (a) Section 1108(g)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1308(g)(5)) is amended—(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking “and (E)” and inserting “(E), and (F)”;(2) in subparagraph (C), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking “and (E)” and inserting “and (F)”;(3) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F);133 STAT. 892(4) by inserting after subparagraph (D), the following:“(E) Subject to subparagraph (F), for the period beginning January 1, 2019, and ending September 30, 2019, the amount of the increase otherwise provided under subparagraph (A) for the Northern Mariana Islands shall be further increased by $36,000,000.”; and(5) in subparagraph (F) (as redesignated by paragraph (3) of this section)—(A) by striking “title XIX, during” and inserting “title XIX—“(i) during”;(B) by striking “and (D)” and inserting “, (D), and (E)”;(C) by striking “and the Virgin Islands” each place it appears and inserting “, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands”;(D) by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and(E) by adding at the end the following:“(ii) for the period beginning January 1, 2019, and ending September 30, 2019, with respect to payments to Guam and American Samoa from the additional funds provided under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall increase the Federal medical assistance percentage or other rate that would otherwise apply to such payments to 100 percent.”; and(6) by adding at the end the following:“(G) Not later than September 30, 2019, Guam and American Samoa shall each submit a plan to the Secretary outlining the steps each such territory shall take to collect and report reliable data to the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T–MSIS) (or a successor system).”.(b) The amounts provided by the amendments made by subsection (a) are designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.