S 1886 · 93th Congress · Labor and Employment
A bill to amend section 5(1) (1) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 to simplify administration of the act; and to amend section 226(e) of the Social Security Act to extend kidney disease medicare coverage to railroad employees, their spouses, and their dependent children.
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.(1973-05-23)
Plain Language Summary
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Sets forth conditions for purposes of determining specified benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act. States that a child whose entitlement to an annuity under the Railraod Retirement Act was terminated because he ceased to be disabled and who becomes again disabled as provided in such Act, may become reentitled to an annuity on the basis of such disability upon his application for such reentitlement. States that a child who attains age twenty-two at a time when he is a full-time student but has not (at such time) completed the requirements for, or received, a degree from a four-year college or university shall be deemed (for purposes of determining whether his entitlement to an annuity under this Act has terminated and for purposes of dertermining his initial entitlement to such an annuity) not to have attained such age until the first day of the first month following the end of the quarter or semester in which he is enrolled at such time. Extends the kidney disease medicare coverage under the Social Security Act to railroad employees, their spouses and their dependent children. States that any child whose entitlement to an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act was terminate…
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