Bill Text: MI HB5651 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Human services; medical services; retroactive spend down on funeral costs; allow. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 107b.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-23 - Printed Bill Filed 05/23/2012 [HB5651 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5651-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5651

 

May 22, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Lane, Haugh, Forlini and Liss and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

 

"The social welfare act,"

 

(MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 107b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 107b. (1) An applicant who is a patient of a nursing home

 

may apply for medical assistance and become eligible for not more

 

than 3 months preceding the application date, if both of the

 

following apply:

 

     (a) In the 3 months immediately preceding the application

 

date, the applicant's excess assets were not more than the amount

 

allowed to be sheltered in an irrevocable prepaid funeral contract.

 

     (b) The applicant uses the excess assets to purchase a funeral

 

contract for the applicant, the applicant's spouse, or both the

 

applicant and his or her spouse.

 

     (2) If the department or the department of community health

 

requires a federal waiver or amendment to the state plan to

 

implement the provisions of this section, the department or the

 

department of community health shall apply immediately upon

 

enactment of this section for that federal waiver or amendment to

 

the state plan.