ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 613
(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Kessler, Fanning, Mitchell, Hunter
and Ball)
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[Introduced February 21, 2000; referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on
Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter nine of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve,
relating to medicaid eligibility; and requiring the division
of human services to allow a higher level of protected income
in connection with spend-down requirements.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, AND OFFICE OF
COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES; POWERS, DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES GENERALLY.
§9-2-12. Medicaid protected income level.
After the first day of July, two thousand, the division shall,
in determining an applicant's eligibility for medicaid assistance,
use a monthly protected income level of five hundred dollars or the
maximum amount allowed by federal law.