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                          HOUSE BILL 1659

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives H. Sommers, Hankins, Cody, Tokuda, Ogden, Mitchell, Conway, Kagi, Kessler and McIntire; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

Read first time 02/02/1999.  Referred to Committee on Children & Family Services.

Authorizing implementation of a waiver for the department of social and health services to provide family planning services to eligible persons.

    AN ACT Relating to department of social and health services family planning services; reenacting and amending RCW 74.09.510; and adding a new section to chapter 74.09 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 74.09 RCW to read as follows:

    The department may, upon receipt of approval from the federal health care financing administration, implement a waiver under section 1115 of the federal social security act to provide family planning services to persons with family incomes at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level.  For purposes of this section, family planning services includes all federal food and drug administration-approved contraceptives, sterilization services, and medical services associated with use of contraceptive and sterilization services, educational services, social services, and interpretive services necessary to aid individuals to avoid unintended pregnancy.

    Sec. 2.  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 or 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) 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, and section 1 of this act 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.

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