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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 564
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1734
Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
(AGE)
AN ACT PERMITTING A COMMUNITY SPOUSE OF AN
INSTITUTIONALIZED SPOUSE TO RETAIN THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT
OF ALLOWABLE ASSETS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this 1
section: 2
(1) "Institutionalized spouse" has the same meaning as provided in 42 3
USC 1396r-5(h)(1). 4
(2) "Community spouse" has the same meaning as provided in 42 USC 5
1396r-5(h)(2). 6
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall amend the Medicaid 7
state plan to permit a community spouse of an institutionalized spouse to 8
retain the maximum resource amount allowable for such community 9
spouse pursuant to 42 USC 1396r-5(f)(2). 10
(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the 11
provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to implement the 12
provisions of this section. 13 Raised Bill No. 564
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To allow spouses of institutionalized Medicaid recipients to retain a
greater share of marital assets in order to live independently longer in
the community and save state costs related to institutionalization.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]