Bill Text: CT SB00231 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Modifying The Katie Beckett Home Care Waiver Program.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - Public Hearing 03/01 [SB00231 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00231-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 231 | |||
February Session, 2012 |
LCO No. 1119 | |||
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Referred to Committee on Human Services |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT MODIFYING THE KATIE BECKETT HOME CARE WAIVER PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17b-283 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):
The Commissioner of Social Services shall, [amend the state's model 2176 Medicaid waiver to allow one hundred twenty-five disabled persons to participate under the waiver. The commissioner may, within available appropriations, amend such waiver to increase the number of persons eligible to participate under the waiver to not more than two hundred disabled persons] within available appropriations, administer a Medicaid waiver program pursuant to Section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act to provide home and community-based services for persons who are institutionalized or at risk of institutionalization and who (1) are twenty-one years of age or younger; (2) have a physical disability and may also have a co-occurring developmental disability; and (3) meet the financial eligibility criteria established in the waiver.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
July 1, 2012 |
17b-283 |
Statement of Purpose:
To make technical modifications to a Medicaid waiver program for persons with disabilities to expand access and better define the population served.
[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.]