House File 316 - 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 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