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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 7092
January Session, 2019
AN ACT EXPANDING THE KATIE BECKETT WAIVER PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective July 1, 2019) The sum of ____ dollars is 1
appropriated to the Department of Social Services, from the General 2
Fund, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, to increase capacity for 3
and reduce the waiting list of the Medicaid waiver program 4
established pursuant to section 17b-283 of the general statutes that 5
provides home and community-based services to persons who (1) are 6
institutionalized or at risk of institutionalization; (2) are twenty-one 7
years of age or younger; (3) have a physical disability and may also 8
have a co-occurring developmental disability; and (4) meet the 9
financial eligibility criteria established for the waiver program. 10
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1, "(1)" was inserted before "are institutionalized", "and who"
was deleted after "institutionalization" and replaced with a semicolon
and existing subdivision designators "(1)" to "(3)", inclusive, were
changed to "(2)" to "(4)", inclusive, for clarity.
HS Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO