SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 1336

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11  Senator Diaz-Balart moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment 

14         On page 3, between lines 23 and 24,

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16  insert:

17         (1)  Low-income families with children are eligible for

18  Medicaid provided they meet the following requirements:

19         (a)  The family includes a dependent child who is

20  living with a caretaker relative.

21         (b)  The family's income does not exceed the gross

22  income test limit.

23         (c)  The family's countable income and resources do not

24  exceed the applicable Aid to Families with Dependent Children

25  (AFDC) income and resource standards under the AFDC state plan

26  in effect in July 1996, except as amended in the Medicaid

27  state plan to conform as closely as possible to the

28  requirements of the WAGES Program as created in s. 414.015, to

29  the extent permitted by federal law.

30         (2)  A person who receives payments from, who is

31  determined eligible for, or who was eligible for but lost cash

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 1  benefits from the federal program known as the Supplemental

 2  Security Income program (SSI).  This category includes a

 3  low-income person age 65 or over and a low-income person under

 4  age 65 considered to be permanently and totally disabled.

 5         (3)  A child under age 21 living in a low-income,

 6  two-parent family, and a child under age 7 living with a

 7  nonrelative, if the income and assets of the family or child,

 8  as applicable, do not exceed the resource limits under the

 9  WAGES Program.

10         (4)  A child who is eligible under Title IV-E of the

11  Social Security Act for subsidized board payments, foster

12  care, or adoption subsidies, and a child for whom the state

13  has assumed temporary or permanent responsibility and who does

14  not qualify for Title IV-E assistance but is in foster care,

15  shelter or emergency shelter care, or subsidized adoption.

16         (5)  A pregnant woman for the duration of her pregnancy

17  and for the post partum period as defined in federal law and

18  rule, or a child under age 1, if either is living in a family

19  that has an income which is at or below 150 percent of the

20  most current federal poverty level, or, effective January 1,

21  1992, that has an income which is at or below 185 percent of

22  the most current federal poverty level.  Such a person is not

23  subject to an assets test. Further, a pregnant woman who

24  applies for eligibility for the Medicaid program through a

25  qualified Medicaid provider must be offered the opportunity,

26  subject to federal rules, to be made presumptively eligible

27  for the Medicaid program.

28         (6)  A child born after September 30, 1983, living in a

29  family that has an income which is at or below 100 percent of

30  the current federal poverty level, who has attained the age of

31  6, but has not attained the age of 19.  In determining the

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 1  eligibility of such a child, an assets test is not required.

 2         (7)  A child living in a family that has an income

 3  which is at or below 133 percent of the current federal

 4  poverty level, who has attained the age of 1, but has not

 5  attained the age of 6.  In determining the eligibility of such

 6  a child, an assets test is not required.

 7         (8)  A person who is age 65 or over or is determined by

 8  the agency to be disabled, whose income is at or below 100

 9  percent of the most current federal poverty level and whose

10  assets do not exceed limitations established by the agency.

11  However, the agency may only pay for premiums, coinsurance,

12  and deductibles, as required by federal law, unless additional

13  coverage is provided for any or all members of this group by

14  s. 409.904(1).

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