STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

HOUSE BILL 2709	By:	Morrissette

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to poor persons; providing that a person awaiting certain services on the statewide Developmental Disabilities Services Division Waiver request waiting list shall not be removed or lowered due to specified increase in annual income or assets; authorizing nonprofit organizations to create certain fund; allowing certain donations; providing limit of donation; specifying certain donors shall not affect placement of waiver request waiting list; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 198.18 of Title 56, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  A person awaiting home-based or community-based services from the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services who has been determined to be eligible and has been placed on the statewide waiver request waiting list shall not be removed from the list due to an increase in annual income or assets of the person or the family of the person which is no more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each year the person is on the list.  The Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services shall not move a person whose income or assets have increased no more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each year the person is on the list to a lower position on the statewide waiver request waiting list.
B.  Nonprofit organizations in the state seeking to participate as a granting agency may create a separate general fund into which private individuals, businesses, corporations and other nonprofit organizations, to include foundations, may donate cash and property to be dispensed through the granting process by the selection committee of the board of the nonprofit organization.  The granting agency donations to those registered on the statewide waiver request list, not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), in cash and unlimited in-kind, with accounting documentation available for Medicaid, Medicare, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and any other program in which income is an eligibility consideration, shall not affect the donation recipient’s placement on the statewide waiver request waiting list.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

53-2-9121	SDR	01/16/12