To provide assistance to individuals and States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
(This measure has not been amended since the House agreed to Senate amendment with amendments on October 19, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
QI, TMA, and Abstinence Programs Extension and Hurricane Katrina Unemployment Relief Act of 2005 - Title I: Health Provisions - Amends XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend from September 2005 through September 2007 the qualified individual program (under which medical assistance is available for Medicare cost-sharing for individuals who would be qualified Medicare beneficiaries but for the fact that their income exceeds the state-established income level, and is between 120% and 135% of the official poverty line). Prescribes additional allocations for such program for the extended period.
Extends through December 31, 2005, Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) and the separate program for abstinence education.
Eliminates Medicare and Medicaid coverage under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act of drugs used for the treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction, beginning in 2007.
Title II: Assistance Relating to Unemployment - Amends title IX of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary to transfer from the federal unemployment account: (1) $15 million to the account of Alabama in the Unemployment Trust Fund; (2) $400 million to the account of Louisiana in the Unemployment Trust Fund; and (3) $85 million to the account of Mississippi in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
Authorizes any state to use any amounts received by such state pursuant to title III of the Social Security Act to assist in the administration of claims for compensation on behalf of any other state, if a major disaster was declared with respect to such other state or any area within it, under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, by reason of Hurricane Katrina.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8678-8679)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8678-8679)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S11329-11330)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendment with amendments pursuant to H. Res. 501.
House agreed to Senate amendment with amendments pursuant to H. Res. 501.
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate amendment.
Enacted as Public Law 109-91
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Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the amendments of the House by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11595; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S11595)
Senate agreed to the amendments of the House by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11595; text as Senate agreed to House amendments: CR S11595)
Cleared for White House.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 109-91.
Became Public Law No: 109-91.