House File 316 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEATON


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the personal needs allowance retained by
  2    medical assistance recipients in certain nursing facilities,
  3    providing an effective date, and providing for retroactive
  4    applicability.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 1144YH 82
  7 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,
  1  7 intermediate care facility for persons with mental
  1  8 retardation, or intermediate care facility for persons with
  1  9 mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a resident of
  1 10 a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in
  1 11 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 Medicaid recipients
  1 17 who are residents of nursing facilities, residents of
  1 18 intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
  1 19 retardation, residents of intermediate care facilities for
  1 20 persons with mental illness, and residents of psychiatric
  1 21 medical institutions for children, are to receive a personal
  1 22 needs allowance of $50 per month.  The bill takes effect upon
  1 23 enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2006.
  1 24 LSB 1144YH 82
  1 25 pf:rj/gg/14.1