2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 792

By Senators Chapman and Woelfel

[Introduced February 14, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-2-14, relating to Medicaid coverage for postpartum health care.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. commissioner of human services; powers, duties and resposibilities generally.

§9-2-14. Coverage for postpartum healthcare.

Pregnant women and new parents up to twenty-four (24) months postpartum, and children up to age two shall be eligible for participation in the West Virginia Medicaid Program if:

(1)  They have family income up to but not exceeding one hundred and eighty-five percent (185%) of the nonfarm income official poverty guidelines as promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States as revised annually; and

(2) They are otherwise eligible for the program.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide Medicaid coverage for postpartum healthcare.

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