Bill Text: CT SB01086 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 1086 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Community Long-term Care.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-04 - Senate Recommitted to Human Services [SB01086 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB01086-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 1086*
*January Session, 2013*		_____SB01086HS____040313____

AN ACT CONCERNING COMMUNITY LONG-TERM CARE.

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

Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this section, (1) "Community First Choice Option" means a Medicaid state plan option available under the Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended from time to time, which offers states enhanced federal Medicaid reimbursement to provide eligible individuals with home and community-based services, (2) "eligible individual" means a person eligible for Medicaid who, but for the provision of home and community-based services, would require care in an institution, and (3) "institution" means a hospital, nursing facility, intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, psychiatric institution for persons under twenty-one years of age or a facility that provides persons sixty-five years of age and older with treatment for mental diseases.

(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall conduct a fiscal analysis of the benefits and costs of establishing a Community First Choice Option in the Medicaid state plan for eligible individuals. The fiscal analysis shall be based on (1) actual state expenditures on existing home and community-based Medicaid waiver programs, (2) the number of persons on waiting lists for such waiver programs who would qualify for the Community First Choice Option, (3) current waiver program services that would qualify for higher federal reimbursement under the Community First Choice Option, (4) administrative costs associated with the Community First Choice Option compared to such costs in existing waiver programs, and (5) savings the state would realize under the Community First Choice Option.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2014, the Commissioner of Social Services shall submit a report on the results of the fiscal analysis, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, 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. If savings exceed costs, the Commissioner of Social Services shall, pursuant to section 17b-8 of the general statutes, seek a Medicaid state plan amendment not later than February 1, 2014, to implement the Community First Choice Option.