US Congress Senate Bill 3289 (Prior Session Legislation)

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June 13 2012 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) expand the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to include youth in need of services provided in a psychiatric residential treatment facility; (2) limit, under the waiver, the total number of Medicaid inpatient bed days at psychiatric residential treatment facilities during each fiscal year to the total number for the previous fiscal year as increased by the estimated percentage increase (if any) in the population of individuals under 21 residing in the state over the preceding 12-month period; and (3) change references to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability.

Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012

Sen Kerry, John F.	Sen Begich, Mark	Sen Brown, Scott P.	Sen Cochran, Thad
Sen Grassley, Chuck	Sen Wicker, Roger F.

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-13	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2012-06-13	Senate	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4153)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN03289:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s3289is/pdf/BILLS-112s3289is.pdf