Bill Text: CT HB05226 | 2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5226 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Personal Needs Allowance For Certain Long-term Care Facility Residents.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-04 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05226 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-HB05226-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5226*
*February Session, 2014*		LCO No. 1273
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Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
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AN ACT INCREASING THE PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENTS.

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

Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 17b-106 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(b) Effective July 1, [2011] 2014, the commissioner shall provide a state supplement payment for recipients of Medicaid and the federal Supplemental Security Income Program who reside in long-term care facilities sufficient to increase their personal needs allowance to [sixty] seventy-two dollars per month. On and after July 1, 2015, the commissioner shall increase such allowance annually in accordance with Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, if any such adjustments are approved. Such state supplement payment shall be made to the long-term care facility to be deposited into the personal fund account of each such recipient. For the purposes of this subsection, "long-term care facility" means a licensed chronic and convalescent nursing home, a chronic disease hospital, a rest home with nursing supervision, an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities or a state humane institution.

Sec. 2. Section 17b-272 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

Effective July 1, [2011] 2014, the Commissioner of Social Services shall permit patients residing in nursing homes, chronic disease hospitals and state humane institutions who are medical assistance recipients under sections 17b-260 to 17b-262, inclusive, 17b-264 to 17b-285, inclusive, and 17b-357 to 17b-361, inclusive, to have a monthly personal fund allowance of [sixty] seventy-two dollars. On and after July 1, 2015, the commissioner shall increase such allowance annually in accordance with Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, if any such adjustments are approved.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	17b-106(b)
Sec. 2	July 1, 2014	17b-272

Statement of Purpose:

To provide sufficient funding for personal needs for residents of long-term care facilities who are receiving state medical assistance.

[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.]