House File 2274 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY FOEGE
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the supplementation of the personal needs
2 allowance for residents of specified facilities.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
4 TLSB 5747HH 82
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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 of a nursing facility, an intermediate
1 12 care facility for persons with mental retardation, or an
1 13 intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness who
1 14 has income of less than fifty dollars per month shall receive
1 15 a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive
1 16 a personal needs allowance of fifty dollars per month, if
1 17 funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose.
1 18 EXPLANATION
1 19 This bill relates to the personal needs allowance for
1 20 residents of nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities
1 21 for persons with mental retardation, intermediate care
1 22 facilities for persons with mental illness, and psychiatric
1 23 medical institutions for children. The existing personal
1 24 needs allowance amount is $50 per month. The bill provides
1 25 that a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care
1 26 facility for persons with mental retardation, or an
1 27 intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness,
1 28 who has income of less than $50 per month shall receive a
1 29 supplement from the state in the amount needed to receive a
1 30 personal needs allowance of $50 per month. Prior law allowed
1 31 for the supplement only if funding was specifically
1 32 appropriated for this purpose.
1 33 LSB 5747HH 82
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