Bill Text: TX HB1947 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid recipients who are residents of long-term care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Left pending in committee [HB1947 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1947-Introduced.html
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By: Gonzalez | H.B. No. 1947 |
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relating to the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid | ||
recipients who are residents of long-term care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsection (w) and adding Subsection (w-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(w) The department shall set a personal needs allowance of | ||
not less than the greater of $60 a month or the amount described in | ||
Subsection (w-1) for a resident of a convalescent or nursing home or | ||
related institution licensed under Chapter 242, Health and Safety | ||
Code, personal care facility, ICF-MR facility, or other similar | ||
long-term care facility who receives medical assistance. The | ||
department may send the personal needs allowance directly to a | ||
resident who receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI) (42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 1381 et seq.). This subsection does not apply to a resident | ||
who is participating in a medical assistance waiver program | ||
administered by the department. | ||
(w-1) On September 1 of each even-numbered year, the | ||
department shall adjust the amount of the personal needs allowance | ||
in effect on that date by a percentage representing the most recent | ||
annual change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers | ||
for all items and for all regions of the United States combined, as | ||
determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of | ||
Labor Statistics. The adjusted amount applies with respect to a | ||
personal needs allowance paid on or after the date the adjustment | ||
computation is made. | ||
SECTION 2. The Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
make the initial adjustment to the amount of the personal needs | ||
allowance required by Section 32.024(w-1), Human Resources Code, as | ||
added by this Act, on September 1, 2012. | ||
SECTION 3. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |