l9n/ Connecticut

2006 Regular Session

House Bill 5641

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND RATES PAID BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Appropriations Committee on March 24, 2006. The 2006 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To: (1) Remove the upper age limit on the personal care assistance program for persons with disabilities, (2) provide full payment to medical providers who assist dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid recipients, (3) require the Commissioner of Social Services to adopt less restrictive income and resource methodologies when determining eligibility for Medicaid, (4) establish a Medicaid Institute, (5) eliminate provisions that provide for the establishment of a debt due and owing to the Department of Social Services in situations where a transfer of assets results in the imposition of a penalty period, and (6) restore the availability of transitional Medicaid for a two-year period.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Martin M. Looney

    Its course

    March 1 to March 24, 2006, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action7 actions on 5 days

    In the House of RepresentativesMar 1 to Mar 24 · stopped23 days

    Human Services CommitteeMar 1 to Mar 2120 days

    Appropriations CommitteeMar 21 to Mar 24 · stopped3 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Mar 1 – Mar 21

    1. Mar 1Introduced and sent to Human Services Committee
    2. Mar 3Heard in Human Services Committee
    3. Mar 21Human Services Committee recommended a substitute for it and sent it to Appropriations Committee
    All 7 actions, as published
    1. Mar 1REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
    2. Mar 3PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
    3. Mar 21Joint Favorable Substitute Change of ReferenceBoth houses
    4. Mar 21FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
    5. Mar 23RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
    6. Mar 23FAV. CHG. OF REF. HOUSE TO COMM. ONHouse of Representatives
    7. Mar 24FAV. CHG. OF REF., SEN. TO COMM. ONSenate