House File 184 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  GAYMAN, SMITH, HEDDENS,
                                           HUNTER, FOEGE, WENTHE,
                                           KRESSIG, and JOCHUM


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the personal needs allowance for medical
  2    assistance recipients, providing an effective date, and
  3    providing for retroactive applicability.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1861HH 82
  6 pf/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 249A.30A, Code 2007, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    249A.30A  MEDICAL ASSISTANCE == PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE.
  1  4    The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance
  1  5 program, which may be retained by a recipient of medical
  1  6 assistance who is a resident of a nursing facility, an
  1  7 intermediate care facility for persons with mental
  1  8 retardation, or an intermediate care facility for persons with
  1  9 mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or who is a
  1 10 resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as
  1 11 defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty dollars per month.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE == RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This
  1 13 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon
  1 14 enactment, and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2006.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16    This bill provides that, in addition to medical assistance
  1 17 recipients who are residents of nursing facilities, the
  1 18 personal needs allowance which may be retained by medical
  1 19 assistance recipients who are residents of intermediate care
  1 20 facilities for persons with mental retardation, intermediate
  1 21 care facilities for persons with mental illness, or
  1 22 psychiatric medical institutions for children is $50.
  1 23    The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively
  1 24 applicable to July 1, 2006.
  1 25 LSB 1861HH 82
  1 26 pf:rj/gg/14.1