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SENATE BILL 6374
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By Senators Thibaudeau, Kohl and Patterson
Read first time 01/16/98. Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to medicaid eligibility for children; reenacting and amending RCW 74.09.510 and 74.09.510; and making an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 74.09.510 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 eighteen
years of age or younger allowed by Title XXI of the social security act whose
total family countable income does not exceed two hundred fifty percent of the
federal poverty level.
Sec. 2. RCW 74.09.510 and 1997 c 59 s 14 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
Medical
assistance may be provided in accordance with eligibility requirements
established by the department of social and health services, 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 medicaid, 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) individuals who would be eligible for
but choose not to receive cash assistance; (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; ((and))
(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 eighteen years of age or younger
allowed by Title XXI of the social security act whose total family countable
income does not exceed two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The sum of . . . . . dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, from the general fund to the department of social and health services for the purposes of this act.
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