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 90 STAT. 2902 87 Stat. 155. 42 USC 1396.

42 USC 1382f.

42 USC 1382e note.

Effective date. 42 USC 1382g note.

PUBLIC LAW 94-585—OCT. 21, 1976 ments pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 212(a) of Public Law 93-66), on or after June 30, 1977, to be eligible for payments pursuant to title X IX with respect to expenditures for any calendar quarter which begins— ^'(1) after June 30, 1977, or, if later, "(2) after the calendar quarter in which it first makes such supplementary payments, such State must have in effect an agreement with the Secretary whereby the State will— "(3) continue to make such supplementary payments, and "(4) maintain such supplementary payments at levels which are not lower than the levels of such payments in effect in December 1976, or, if no such payments were made in that month, the levels for the first subsequent month in which such payments were made. "(b) The Secretary shall not find that a State has failed to meet the requirements imposed by paragraph (4) of subsection (a) with respect to the levels of its supplementary payments for a particular month or months if the State's expenditures for such payments in the twelve-month period (within which such month or months fall) beginning on the effective date of any increase in the level of supplemental security income benefits pursuant to section 1617 are not less than its expenditures for such payments in the preceding twelve-month period.". (b) Section 401(a)(2) of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 is amended— (1) by inserting "(subject to the second sentence of this paragraph)" immediately after "Act" where it first appears in subparagraph (B),and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "In determining the difference between the level specified in subparagraph (A) and the benefits and income described in subparagraph (B) there shall be excluded any part of any such benefit which results from (and would not be payable but for) any cost-of-living increase in such benefits under section 1617 of such Act (or any general increase enacted by law in the dollar amounts referred to m such section) becoming effective after June 30, 1977.". (c) The provisions of this section shall be effective with respect to benefits payable for months after June 1977. Approved October 21, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1210 (Comm. on Ways and Means). SENATE REPORT No. 94-1345 (Comm. on Finance). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): June 8, considered and passed House. Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended; House concurred in Senate amendments. WEEKLY eOMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, VoL 12, No. 44: Oct. 22, Presidential statement.

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