SF 528 (LSB 1471XS (5) 91)

SENATE FILE 528

BY  CELSI

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the personal needs allowance for residents of certain facilities under the Medicaid program, and providing an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 249A.30A, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   249A.30A  Medical assistance —— personal needs allowance.
   1.  The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program, which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty eighty-five dollars per month.
   2.  A resident who has income of less than fifty eighty-five dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of fifty eighty-five dollars per month. The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sufficient amount from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services for this purpose to provide the supplementation specified under this section.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides for an increase, from $50 to $85, in the personal needs allowance under Medicaid retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children. A resident who has income of less than $85 per month shall receive a supplement from the state as necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of $85. The bill provides for an annual appropriation from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services an amount sufficient to provide the supplementation specified in the bill.