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                          HOUSE BILL 2984

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Edwards, Cooper, Scott, Lovick, Ogden, Murray, O'Brien, Romero, Stensen, Keiser, Kenney and Schual‑Berke

Read first time 01/25/2000.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Making persons in foster care on their eighteenth birthday eligible for medical assistance until age twenty-one.

    AN ACT Relating to eligibility for medical assistance; reenacting and amending RCW 74.09.510; making an appropriation; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 74.09.510 and 1997 c 59 s 14 and 1997 c 58 s 201 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

    Medical assistance may be provided in accordance with eligibility requirements established by the department, as defined in the social security Title XIX state plan for mandatory categorically needy persons and:  (1) Individuals who would be eligible for cash assistance except for their institutional status; (2) individuals who are under twenty-one years of age, who would be eligible for temporary assistance for needy families, but do not qualify as dependent children and who are in (a) foster care, (b) subsidized adoption, (c) a nursing facility or an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, or (d) inpatient psychiatric facilities; (3) the aged, blind, and disabled who:  (a) Receive only a state supplement, or (b) would not be eligible for cash assistance if they were not institutionalized; (4) categorically eligible individuals who meet the income and resource requirements of the cash assistance programs; (5) individuals who are enrolled in managed health care systems, who have otherwise lost eligibility for medical assistance, but who have not completed a current six-month enrollment in a managed health care system, and who are eligible for federal financial participation under Title XIX of the social security act; (6) children and pregnant women allowed by federal statute for whom funding is appropriated; (7) other individuals eligible for medical services under RCW 74.09.035 and 74.09.700 for whom federal financial participation is available under Title XIX of the social security act; ((and)) (8) persons allowed by section 1931 of the social security act for whom funding is appropriated; and (9) persons under the age of twenty-one, who, on the person's eighteenth birthday, were in foster care under the responsibility of a state.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The sum of . . . . . . dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the general fund to the department of social and health services for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, to carry out the purposes of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act takes effect July 1, 2000.

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