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
PAG LIN
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