Bill Text: PA HB2747 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for medical assistance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-09-22 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB2747 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2747-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4297
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2747 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, JOSEPHS AND SIPTROTH, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for medical assistance.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 61 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3308. Medical assistance.
For each inmate who, at the time of incarceration, is
eligible for the program under Article IV(f) of the act of June
13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, a
chief administrative officer shall cooperate with the Department
of Public Welfare to do one of the following:
(1) Maintain the inmate's eligibility during
incarceration.
(2) Suspend, rather than terminate, the inmate's
eligibility during incarceration and restore eligibility upon
release.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.