Bill Text: CT SB00093 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Community Spouse Of An Institutionalized Person.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-08 - Public Hearing 02/14 [SB00093 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00093-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 93
January Session, 2013		LCO No. 2558
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Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMMUNITY SPOUSE OF AN INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSON.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this section:

(1) "Institutionalized person" has the same meaning as provided in 42 USC 1396r-5(h)(1).

(2) "Community spouse" has the same meaning as provided in 42 USC 1396r-5(h)(2).

(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall amend the Medicaid state plan to require that the community spouse of an institutionalized person receives the maximum community spouse protected amount pursuant to 42 USC 1396r-5(f)(2) for a period of five years after the institutionalized spouse becomes eligible for Medicaid under Title XIX of the Social Security Act.

(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to implement the provisions of this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To increase the amount of assets that may be retained by the spouse of an institutionalized Medicaid recipient.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

SEN. KELLY, 21st Dist.

S.B. 93