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 increasing the protected income level for spend down under medicaid.

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.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of persons entitled to receive medicaid by increasing from $210 to $500 the protected monthly income of each applicant.


This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.)

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HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS


On page two, section twelve, line five, after the word "dollars" by inserting the words "or the maximum amount allowed by federal law";
And,
On page one, by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:
Eng. Senate Bill No. 613--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.