House Bill 2183

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                HB 2183

        By Representatives Wilson, C. Smith, Effman, Greenstein,
    Sobel, Eggelletion, Heyman, Lawson, Gottlieb, Casey, Chestnut,
    Henriquez, Betancourt, Jacobs, Bloom, Boyd, Suarez, Logan,
    Frankel, Bush and Hill



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to family health care; amending

  3         s. 409.904, F.S.; providing for eligibility for

  4         the Medicaid program under certain

  5         circumstances; providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (8) is added to section 409.904,

10  Florida Statutes, to read:

11         409.904  Optional payments for eligible persons.--The

12  agency may make payments for medical assistance and related

13  services on behalf of the following persons who are determined

14  to be eligible subject to the income, assets, and categorical

15  eligibility tests set forth in federal and state law.  Payment

16  on behalf of these Medicaid eligible persons is subject to the

17  availability of moneys and any limitations established by the

18  General Appropriations Act or chapter 216.

19         (8)  Parents and their minor children in a family with

20  family income at or below 200 percent of the current federal

21  poverty level. In determining eligibility, an assets test is

22  not required.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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26                          SENATE SUMMARY

27    Relates to family health care. Provides for eligibility
      for the Medicaid program, without requiring an assets
28    test, for a family whose income is at or below 200
      percent of the current federal poverty level.
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