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FISCAL NOTEWEST virginia Legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 652

By Senators Kessler and Yost

[Introduced February 20, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §49-2-1007, relating to prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Resources from discontinuing the bundled service funding and reimbursement system for residential treatment of at-risk children.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §49-2-1007, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. STATE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CHILDREN.

§49-2-1007. Bundled service funding for residential treatment of at-risk children.


(a) The Department of Health and Human Resources shall continue the state’s bundled service funding and reimbursement program for residential treatment of at-risk children. The department is required to follow the department’s own bundled funding standards and procedures that were in place prior to July 1, 2015, when reimbursing residential treatment centers for the cost of treating at-risk children.

(b) Any and all changes to standards, procedures or policies affecting the bundled service funding and reimbursement program for residential treatment of at-risk children shall be subject to legislative rule making review pursuant to chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Resources from discontinuing the bundled service funding and reimbursement system for residential treatment of at-risk children.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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