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Senate Bill No. 39

(By Senators Ross, Fanning, Hunter, Mitchell, Sharpe, Redd, Anderson, Caldwell, Rowe, Minard, Helmick, Kessler, Boley, Minear and Sprouse)

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[Introduced February 14, 2001; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend article two, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve, relating to medicaid eligibility; and requiring the division of human services to allow a higher level of protected income in connection with spend-down requirements.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, AND OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES; POWERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES GENERALLY.

§9-2-12. Medicaid protected income level.
After the first day of July, two thousand one, the division shall, in determining an applicant's eligibility for medicaid assistance, use a monthly protected income level of five hundred dollars or the maximum amount allowed by federal law.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Human Services to allow a higher level of protected income in connection with spend-down requirements for determining medicaid eligibility.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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