Senate File 2047 - Introduced



                                   SENATE FILE       
                                   BY  KIBBIE, BEALL, HATCH, APPEL,
                                       COURTNEY, FRAISE, DEARDEN,
                                       WOOD, OLIVE, QUIRMBACH,
                                       HANCOCK, HOGG, SENG, HORN,
                                       DVORSKY, HECKROTH, DOTZLER,
                                       DANIELSON, SCHMITZ, RAGAN,
                                       STEWART, CONNOLLY, SCHOENJAHN,
                                       BOLKCOM, McCOY, and KREIMAN


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the annual adjustment of the personal needs
  2    allowance for residents of certain institutional health
  3    facilities.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5992SS 82
  6 pf/rj/8

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  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 COST OF LIVING INDEX.
  1  5    The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance
  1  6 program, which may be retained by a resident of a nursing
  1  7 facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with
  1  8 mental retardation, or an intermediate care facility for
  1  9 persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or
  1 10 who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for
  1 11 children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty dollars
  1 12 per month.  The personal needs allowance for such residents
  1 13 shall be increased annually, on January 1, in an amount by the
  1 14 same percentage as the most recent cost of living adjustment
  1 15 announced by the United States social security administration
  1 16 for the purpose of determining social security benefits.  A
  1 17 resident who has income of less than fifty dollars the amount
  1 18 specified under this section per month shall receive a
  1 19 supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a
  1 20 personal needs allowance of fifty dollars the specified amount
  1 21 per month, if funding is specifically appropriated for this
  1 22 purpose.
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24    This bill provides for a cost of living increase, annually,
  1 25 on January 1, in the personal needs allowance under the
  1 26 medical assistance program which may be retained by a resident
  1 27 of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for
  1 28 persons with mental retardation, or an intermediate care
  1 29 facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in Code
  1 30 section 135C.1, or who is a resident of a psychiatric medical
  1 31 institution for children as defined in Code section 135H.1.
  1 32 The personal needs allowance, currently $50, is to be
  1 33 increased by the same percentage as the most recent cost of
  1 34 living adjustment announced by the United States social
  1 35 security administration for the purpose of determining social
  2  1 security.
  2  2 LSB 5992SS 82
  2  3 pf/rj/8