SF 2076 (LSB 6012XS (5) 88)

SENATE FILE 2076

BY  JOCHUM, J. SMITH, WAHLS, KINNEY, DOTZLER, R. TAYLOR, BISIGNANO, LYKAM, GIDDENS, BOLKCOM, PETERSEN, RAGAN, MATHIS, BOULTON, CELSI, QUIRMBACH, HOGG, and T. TAYLOR

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid members.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 249A.30A, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   249A.30A  Medical assistance —— personal needs allowance.
   The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program, which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty sixty dollars per month. A resident who has income of less than fifty sixty dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of fifty sixty dollars per month, if funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill increases the personal needs allowance under the Medicaid program which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children from $50 to $60 per month. Additionally, under the bill, a resident who has income of less than $60 per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of $60 per month, if funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose.