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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB 1228

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Brown-Waite moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 39, between lines 14 and 15,

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17         Section 19.  The Agency for Health Care Administration

18  shall conduct a study of the feasibility of extending

19  presumptive eligibility for Medicaid to children who have not

20  attained the age of 19.  The study shall assess whether

21  families delay seeking health care services or health care

22  coverage because of the lack of presumptive eligibility. The

23  agency shall report its findings to the President of the

24  Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the

25  chairpersons of the respective health care committees no later

26  than December 31, 1998.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         directing the Agency for Health Care

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 8         presumptive eligibility and report its findings

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