Bill Text: CT HB05068 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Amendments To The Medicaid State Plan.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-06 - File Number 311 [HB05068 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05068-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 5068 | ||
February Session, 2010 |
LCO No. 435 | ||
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Referred to Committee on Human Services |
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AN ACT CONCERNING AMENDMENTS TO THE MEDICAID STATE PLAN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17b-8 of the 2010 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall submit: [an] (1) An application for a federal waiver of any assistance program requirements, except such application pertaining to routine operational issues, and (2) any proposed amendment to the Medicaid state plan to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies prior to the submission of such application to the federal government or implementation of such amendment to the Medicaid state plan. Not later than thirty days after the date of their receipt of such application or proposed amendment, the joint standing committees shall: [(1)] (A) Hold a public hearing on the waiver application or proposed amendment, and [(2)] (B) thereafter advise the commissioner of their approval, denial or modifications, if any, of the commissioner's application or proposed amendment. If the joint standing committees advise the commissioner of their denial of the commissioner's application or proposed amendment, the commissioner shall not submit the application for a federal waiver to the federal government or implement any provisions of the proposed amendment. If such committees do not concur, the committee chairpersons shall appoint a committee of conference which shall be composed of three members from each joint standing committee. At least one member appointed from each joint standing committee shall be a member of the minority party. The report of the committee of conference shall be made to each joint standing committee, which shall vote to accept or reject the report. The report of the committee of conference may not be amended. If a joint standing committee rejects the report of the committee of conference, that joint standing committee shall notify the commissioner of the rejection and the commissioner's application or proposed amendment shall be deemed approved. If the joint standing committees accept the report, the committee having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies shall advise the commissioner of their approval, denial or modifications, if any, of the commissioner's application or proposed amendment. If the joint standing committees do not so advise the commissioner during the thirty-day period, the application or proposed amendment shall be deemed approved. Any application for a federal waiver submitted by the commissioner or amendment to the Medicaid state plan implemented by the commissioner, pursuant to this section, shall be in accordance with the approval or modifications, if any, of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies.
(b) If in developing the budget for the department for the next fiscal year, the commissioner contemplates applying for a federal waiver or amending the Medicaid state plan, the commissioner shall notify the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services of the possibility of such application or proposed amendment.
(c) Prior to submission of an application for a waiver from federal law or a proposed amendment to the Medicaid state plan to the General Assembly under subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Social Services shall publish a notice that the commissioner intends to seek such a waiver or proposes such amendment in the Connecticut Law Journal, along with a summary of the provisions of the waiver application or proposed amendment and the manner in which individuals may submit comments. The commissioner shall allow fifteen days for written comments on the waiver application or proposed amendment prior to submission of the application for a waiver or proposed amendment to the General Assembly under subsection (a) of this section and shall include all written comments with the waiver application or proposed amendment in the submission to the General Assembly.
(d) The commissioner shall include with any waiver application submitted to the federal government pursuant to this section: (1) Any written comments received pursuant to subsection (c) of this section; and (2) a complete transcript of the joint standing committee proceedings held pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, including any additional written comments submitted to the joint standing committees at such proceedings. The joint standing committees shall transmit any such materials to the commissioner for inclusion with any such waiver application.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
from passage |
17b-8 |
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Commissioner of Social Services to submit all proposed amendments to the Medicaid state plan to the human services and appropriations committees.
[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.]