Bill Text: CT SB00155 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Personal Needs Allowance For Long-term Care Facility Residents.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-11 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations [SB00155 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00155-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2018 |
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AN ACT INCREASING THE PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE FOR 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 Subsection (b) of section 17b-106 of the 2018 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2018):
(b) Effective July 1, [2011] 2018, 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] sixty-five dollars per month. 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 Section 17b-272 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2018):
Effective July 1, [2011] 2018, 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] sixty-five dollars.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
July 1, 2018 |
17b-106(b) |
Sec. 2 |
July 1, 2018 |
17b-272 |
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Sections 1 and 2, the effective date was changed to July 1, 2018, for consistency with other provisions of the sections.
AGE |
Joint Favorable Subst. |