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To ensure that Members of Congress do not receive better prescription drug benefits than medicare beneficiaries.

July 16, 2004

Mr. DAYTON introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

July 19, 2004

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

To ensure that Members of Congress do not receive better prescription drug benefits than medicare beneficiaries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Taste of Our Own Medicine Act of 2004'.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

(a) LIMITATION ON BENEFITS- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the actuarial value of the prescription drug benefits of any Member of Congress enrolled in a health benefits plan under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, may not exceed the actuarial value of basic prescription drug coverage (as defined in section 1860D-2(a)(3) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 101(a) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173)).

(b) REGULATIONS- The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section.

Calendar No. 644

To ensure that Members of Congress do not receive better prescription drug benefits than medicare beneficiaries.

July 19, 2004

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