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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2709

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representative Dyer)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Modifying the implementation date of the long-term care partnership program.

    AN ACT Relating to the long-term care partnership program; adding a new section to chapter 48.85 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 48.85 RCW to read as follows:

    This chapter shall be implemented at such time as the federal government enacts legislation authorizing a state to exempt from estate recoveries amounts of assets, to the extent such assets are exempted for eligibility under a medicaid state plan amendment.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

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