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2018 SESSION
SB 915 Medical assistance; increase access to certain services.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Priority Needs Access Program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend the Medicaid demonstration project (Project Number 11-W-00297/3) to create the Priority Needs Access Program to (i) increase the income eligibility for adults with serious mental illness from 100 to 138 percent of the federal poverty level; (ii) expand program eligibility to individuals with a diagnosis of mental illness, substance use disorder, or a life-threatening or complex chronic medical condition; (iii) include in the benefit package inpatient hospital and emergency room services; (iv) and include the demonstration project in the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus managed care program. The bill also directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to add 144 new Community Living waiver slots, 1,847 new Family and Individual Support waiver slots, and 305 new Building Independent waiver slots; the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish and operate a statewide alternative transportation system for adults and children who are subject to temporary detention orders; the Department of Medical Assistance Services to ensure that children in the Medicaid and FAMIS programs are screened for adverse childhood experiences; and the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to expand neurobehavioral services used to assist persons with brain injuries in returning to work and community living and avoid inappropriate institutionalization of persons with brain injuries. The bill will not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating its purposes is included in the general appropriations act passed in 2018 by the General Assembly that becomes law.
FULL TEXT
- 01/19/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18105040D pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106996D-S1 pdf
- 02/13/18 Senate: Floor substitute printed 18107129D-S2 (Dunnavant and Chase) pdf | impact statement
- 02/13/18 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 18107129D-S2 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/19/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18105040D
- 01/19/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/01/18 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/01/18 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/12/18 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (10-Y 6-N)
- 02/12/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106996D-S1
- 02/13/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/18 Senate: Read second time
- 02/13/18 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 18106996D-S1
- 02/13/18 Senate: Floor substitute printed 18107129D-S2 (Dunnavant and Chase)
- 02/13/18 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/13/18 Senate: Substitute by Senators Dunnavant and Chase agreed to 18107129D-S2
- 02/13/18 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB915S2
- 02/13/18 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 18107129D-S2
- 02/13/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/18 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/19/18 House: Read first time
- 02/19/18 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/22/18 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
- 03/05/18 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/18 House: Read second time
- 03/08/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/10/18 House: No further action taken
- 03/10/18 House: Failed to pass in House