General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5760
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 2038
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Introduced by:
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General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5760
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 2038
*02038_______AGE*
Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
(AGE)
AN ACT INCREASING THE PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 17b-106 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):
(b) Effective July 1, [2011] 2013, the commissioner shall provide a state supplement payment for recipients of Medicaid and the federal Supplemental Security Income Program who reside in long-term care facilities sufficient to increase their personal needs allowance to [sixty] seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents per month and such state supplement payment shall be adjusted annually thereafter on July first based on the percentage increase, if any, in the most recent calendar year average in the consumer price index for all urban consumers. Such state supplement payment shall be made to the long-term care facility to be deposited into the personal fund account of each such recipient. For the purposes of this subsection, "long-term care facility" means a licensed chronic and convalescent nursing home, a chronic disease hospital, a rest home with nursing supervision, an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded or a state humane institution.
Sec. 2. Section 17b-272 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):
Effective July 1, [2011] 2013, the Commissioner of Social Services shall permit patients residing in nursing homes, chronic disease hospitals and state humane institutions who are medical assistance recipients under sections 17b-260 to 17b-262, inclusive, 17b-264 to 17b-285, inclusive, and 17b-357 to 17b-361, inclusive, to have a monthly personal fund allowance of [sixty] seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents. On July 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall adjust the monthly personal fund allowance based on the percentage increase, if any, in the most recent calendar year average in the consumer price index for all urban consumers.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2013 17b-106(b)
Sec. 2 July 1, 2013 17b-272
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2013
17b-106(b)
Sec. 2
July 1, 2013
17b-272
Statement of Purpose:
To increase the personal needs allowance to seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
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