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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Leg islature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2014 By: Ranson
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to Medicaid coverage; providing for
Medicaid coverage for women twelve months after
giving birth; increasing poverty rate; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Sectio n 1011.20 of Title 56, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Social Security Administration shall make payments for
medical assistance and related services on behalf of any previously
pregnant woman, whom the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, or the
agency by contract with the Authority, determines to be eligible,
subject to the income, assets, and categorical eligibility tests set
forth in federal and state law. Payment on behalf of any Medicaid-
eligible woman is subject to the availability of funds.
B. If either a woman for the duration of her pregnancy and for
the postpartum period consisting of the 12 -month period beginning on
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the last day of her pregnancy , or a child under the age of one (1)
year old, is living in a family that has an income that is at or
below one hundred thirty-three percent (133%) of the most current
federal poverty level , such person is not subject to an assets test.
A pregnant woman who applies for eligibility for the Medicaid
program through a qualified Medicaid provider must be offered the
opportunity, subject to federal rules, to be made presumptively
eligible for the Medicaid program.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-6627 TJ 01/16/23