Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1798
                        Barcode 762760
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11  The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
12  (Rich) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 30, between lines 29 and 30,
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18         Section 6.  Subsection (4) of section 409.903, Florida
19  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 Barcode 762760 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 who is eligible to 6 receive services under s. 409.1451(5), until the young adult 7 reaches the age of 20, without regard to any income, resource, 8 or categorical eligibility test that is otherwise required. 9 This category also includes a person who, as a child who was 10 eligible under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act for 11 foster care or the state-provided foster care, who exited 12 foster care due to attaining the age of 18 years, and who is a 13 participant in the has been awarded a Road-to-Independence 14 Program Scholarship. 15 16 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 17 18 19 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 20 And the title is amended as follows: 21 On page 2, line 21, after the semicolon, 22 23 insert: 24 amending s. 409.903, F.S.; providing 25 eligibility criteria for certain persons for 26 medical assistance payments; 27 28 29 30 31 2 4:16 PM 04/21/06 s1798c2c-ha34-tu8