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11  The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
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18         Section 6.    Subsection (4) of section 409.903,
19  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20         409.903  Mandatory payments for eligible persons.--The
21  agency shall make payments for medical assistance and related
22  services on behalf of the following persons who the
23  department, or the Social Security Administration by contract
24  with the Department of Children and Family Services,
25  determines to be eligible, subject to the income, assets, and
26  categorical eligibility tests set forth in federal and state
27  law.  Payment on behalf of these Medicaid eligible persons is
28  subject to the availability of moneys and any limitations
29  established by the General Appropriations Act or chapter 216.
30         (4)  A child who is eligible under Title IV-E of the
31  Social Security Act for subsidized board payments, foster
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    Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1798
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 1  care, or adoption subsidies, and a child for whom the state
 2  has assumed temporary or permanent responsibility and who does
 3  not qualify for Title IV-E assistance but is in foster care,
 4  shelter or emergency shelter care, or subsidized adoption.
 5  This category includes any young adult a child who is eligible
 6  to receive services under s. 409.1451(5), until the young
 7  adult reaches the age of 20, without regard to any income,
 8  resource, or categorical eligibility test that is otherwise
 9  required. This category also includes a child who person who,
10  as a child, was eligible under Title IV-E of the Social
11  Security Act for foster care or the state-provided foster
12  care, who exited foster care due to attaining the age of 18
13  years, and who is a participant in has been awarded a the
14  Road-to-Independence Program Scholarship.
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