House File 2056 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEATON


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                 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:
  4 TLSB 5108YH 82
  5 pf/rj/8

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.
  1 25 LSB 5108YH 82
  1 26 pf/rj/8