A bill to shift financial responsibility for providing welfare assistance to the States and shift financial responsibility for providing medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act to the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Welfare and Medicaid Responsibility Exchange Act of 1995 - Provides for the termination of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program), WIC (Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children), and food stamp programs after FY 1996, shifting financial responsibility to the States for providing similar assistance to low-income individuals, with such cash or non-cash assistance paid for out of a reduction in the State's share of Medicaid funding equivalent to the Federal welfare savings.
Federalizes the Medicaid program after FY 2001, relieving States of their administrative or financial responsibility for it.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S394-395)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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