SF 251 – Medicaid for legal permanent residents
COMMITTEE ACTION:
SF 251 – Medicaid for legal permanent residents
SF 251 requires Medicaid to cover pregnant women who are legal permanent residents; requires the Department of Human Services (DHS) to submit a state plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to do this; and requires DHS to collect data on the women served.
[2/27: short form]
SF 252 – Medicaid for inmates
SF 252 provides that Medicaid coverage of an inmate of a public institution will be suspended, but not terminated, after the first 30 days of commitment, and that the suspension will continue during the entire period of the inmate’s commitment to the public institution. Previously the law allowed the suspension to continue only for up to the initial 12 months of an inmate’s period of commitment, at which time the inmate’s Medicaid coverage would be terminated.
[2/27: short form]