House File 2056 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY HEATON
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the subsidization of the personal needs
2 allowance for residents of certain facilities.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 249A.30A, Code Supplement 2007, is
1 2 amended to read 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 resident of a nursing
1 6 facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with
1 7 mental retardation, or an intermediate care facility for
1 8 persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or
1 9 who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for
1 10 children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty dollars
1 11 per month. A resident who has income of less than fifty
1 12 dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in
1 13 the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of
1 14 fifty dollars per month, if funding is specifically
1 15 appropriated for this purpose.
1 16 EXPLANATION
1 17 This bill eliminates statutory language that limits
1 18 subsidization of the monthly personal needs allowance under
1 19 the medical assistance program retained by residents of
1 20 nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for persons
1 21 with mental retardation, intermediate care facilities for
1 22 persons with mental illness, and psychiatric medical
1 23 institutions for children to instances in which funding is
1 24 specifically appropriated for this purpose.
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