House Journal: Page 1275: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
24 required to participate in the cost of the assessment.
25 2. The assessment shall be paid to the department
26 in equal monthly amounts on or before the fifteenth
27 day of each month. The department may deduct the
28 monthly amount from medical assistance payments to a
29 facility described in subsection 1. The amount
30 deducted from payments shall not exceed the total
31 amount of the assessments due.
32 3. Revenue from the assessments shall be credited
33 to the state medical assistance appropriation. This
34 revenue may be used only for services for which
35 federal financial participation under the medical
36 assistance program is available to match state funds.
37 4. If federal financial participation to match the
38 assessments made under subsection 1 becomes
39 unavailable under federal law, the department shall
40 terminate the imposing of the assessments beginning on
41 the date that the federal statutory, regulatory, or
42 interpretive change takes effect.
43 5. The department of human services may procure a
44 sole source contract to implement the provisions of
45 this section."
46 6. Page 142, by inserting after line 20, the
47 following:
48 " . The section in this division of this Act
49 relating to the assessment on intermediate care
50 facilities for persons with mental retardation."
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1 7. By renumbering as necessary.
Roll call was requested by Smith of Marshall and Osterhaus of
Jackson.
On the question "Shall amendment H-8577 be adopted?" (S.F.
2326)
The ayes were, 42:
Atteberry | Bell | Bukta | Chiodo |
Cohoon | Connors | Dotzler | Fallon |
Foege | Ford | Frevert | Greimann |
Hatch | Huser | Jochum | Kreiman |
Kuhn | Larkin | Lensing | Mascher |
May | Mertz | Murphy | Myers |
Osterhaus | Petersen | Quirk | Reeder |
Reynolds | Richardson | Scherrman | Schrader |
Seng | Shoultz | Smith | Stevens |
Taylor, D. | Taylor, T. | Tremmel | Warnstadt |
Winckler | Wise |
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