Bill Text: VA HB1812 | 2019 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: DMAS; waiver eligibility criteria, dependents of foreign service members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) [HB1812 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2019-HB1812-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 416
An Act to require the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend waiver eligibility criteria to allow dependents of foreign service members to remain on waiting lists for services when assigned outside the Commonwealth.
[H 1812]
Approved March 18, 2019

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Medical Assistance Services shall amend eligibility criteria for the Community Living waiver and the Family and Individual Support waiver to allow the dependent of a foreign service member who was added to the waiting list for services through such waivers while he was a resident of the Commonwealth to maintain his position on the waiting list following a transfer of the foreign service member to an assignment outside of the Commonwealth, so long as the foreign service member maintains the Commonwealth as his legal residence to which he intends to return following completion of the assignment.

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