WEST virginia Legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2113

By Delegates Ellington, Summers and Rohrbach

[Introduced February 8, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then Finance.]

A BILL amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, relating to changes to the Medicaid program; and providing that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources may not change the state plan, without legislative approval, if the change results in a gain or loss of $250,000 to the state.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-25, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

§9-5-25. Changes to the Medicaid Program.

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources may not change the state plan or a federal waiver under title XIX of the federal Social Security Act of the medical assistance program (also known as the Medicaid program) without legislative approval, if the change results in a gain or loss of $250,000 to the state.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources may not change the state Medicaid program plan, without legislative approval if the change results in a gain or loss of $250,000.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.