PUBLIC LAW 105-33—AUG. 5, 1997 111 STAT. 559 "(11) 50 percent of the number of low-income children in the State for the fiscal year. " (B) DETERMINATION OF NUMBER OF CHILDREN.— For purposes of subparagraph (A), a determination of the number of low-income children (and of such children who have no health insurance coverage) for a State for a fiscal year shall be made on the basis of the arithmetic average of the number of such children, as reported and defined in the 3 most recent March supplements to the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census before the beginning of the fiscal year. "(3) ADJUSTMENT FOR GEOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS IN HEALTH COSTS.— " (A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of paragraph (l)(A)(ii), the 'State cost factor' for a State for a fiscal year equal to the sum of— "(i) 0.15, and "(ii) 0.85 multiplied by the ratio of— "(I) the annugil average wages per employee for the State for such year (as determined under subparagraph (B)), to "(II) the annual average wages per employee for the 50 States and the District of Columbia. "(B) ANNUAL AVERAGE WAGES PER EMPLOYEE.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), the 'annual average wages per employee' for a State, or for all the States, for a fiscal year is equal to the average of the annual wages per employee for the State or for the 50 States and the District of Columbia for employees in the health services industry (SIC code 8000), as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor for each of the most recent 3 years before the beginning of the fiscal year involved. "(4) FLOOR FOR STATES.—Subject to paragraph (5), in no case shall the amount of the allotment under this subsection for one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia for a year be less than $2,000,000. To the extent that the application of the previous sentence results in an increase in the allotment to a State above the amount otherwise provided, the allotments for the other States and the District of Columbia under this subsection shall be reduced in a pro rata manner (but not below $2,000,000) so that the total of such allotments in a fiscal year does not exceed the amount otherwise provided for allotment under paragraph (1) for that fiscal year. "(c) ALLOTMENTS TO TERRITORIES.— "(1) IN GENERAL. —Of the amount available for allotment under subsection (a) for a fiscal year, subject to subsection (d), the Secretary shall allot 0.25 percent among each of the commonwealths and territories described in paragraph (3) in the same proportion as the percentage specified in paragraph (2) for such commonwealth or territory bears to the sum of such percentages for all such commonwealths or territories so described. "(2) PERCENTAGE. —The percentage specified in this paragraph for— "(A) Puerto Rico is 91.6 percent, "(B) Guam is 3.5 percent, "(C) Virgin Islands is 2.6 percent,
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