Bill Text: CT HB05282 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Adjusting Income Eligibility For Medicare Savings Programs.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - Public Hearing 03/01 [HB05282 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05282-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5282
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 1148
		*01148_______HS_*
Referred to Committee on Human Services
Introduced by:
(HS)

AN ACT ADJUSTING INCOME ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS.

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

Section 1. Section 17b-256f of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

Beginning [October 1, 2009] March 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Social Services shall increase income disregards used to determine eligibility by the Department of Social Services for the federal Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary, the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary and the Qualifying Individual Programs, administered in accordance with the provisions of 42 USC 1396d(p), by an amount that equalizes the income levels and deductions used to determine eligibility for said programs with income levels and deductions used to determine eligibility for the ConnPACE program under subsection (a) of section 17b-492. The commissioner shall not apply an asset test for eligibility under the Medicare Savings Program. The Commissioner of Social Services, pursuant to section 17b-10, may implement policies and procedures to administer the provisions of this section while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures in regulation form, provided the commissioner prints notice of the intent to adopt the regulations in the Connecticut Law Journal not later than twenty days after the date of implementation. Such policies and procedures shall be valid until the time final regulations are adopted.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	17b-256f

Statement of Purpose:

To align income eligibility guidelines among programs for senior citizens.

[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.]