Senate Bill sb1292

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1292

    By Senator Wasserman Schultz





    34-314-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to optional medical assistance

  3         and related services payments; amending s.

  4         409.904, F.S.; providing for Medicaid

  5         eligibility for certain disabled persons under

  6         a Medicaid buy-in program, subject to specific

  7         federal authorization; providing an effective

  8         date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (11) is added to section

13  409.904, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         409.904  Optional payments for eligible persons.--The

15  agency may make payments for medical assistance and related

16  services on behalf of the following persons who are determined

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

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

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

20  availability of moneys and any limitations established by the

21  General Appropriations Act or chapter 216.

22         (11)  Subject to specific federal authorization, a

23  person who, but for earnings in excess of the limit

24  established under s. 1905(q)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act,

25  would be considered for receiving supplemental security

26  income; who is at least 16 but less than 65 years of age; and

27  whose assets, resources, and earned and unearned income do not

28  exceed 250 percent of the most current federal poverty level.

29  Such persons may be eligible for Medicaid services as part of

30  a Medicaid buy-in established under s. 409.914(2) specifically

31  designed to accommodate those persons made eligible for such a

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1292
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 1  buy-in by Title II of Pub. L. No. 106-170. Such buy-in must

 2  include income-related premiums and cost sharing.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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