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11 Senator Bankhead moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 14. Section 409.903, Florida Statutes, is
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19 409.903 Mandatory payments for eligible persons.--The
20 agency department shall make payments for medical assistance
21 and related services on behalf of the following persons who
22 the agency department determines to be eligible, subject to
23 the income, assets, and categorical eligibility tests set
24 forth in federal and state law. Payment on behalf of these
25 Medicaid eligible persons is subject to the availability of
26 moneys and any limitations established by the General
27 Appropriations Act or chapter 216.
28 (1) Low-income families with children are eligible for
29 Medicaid provided they meet the following requirements:
30 Persons who receive payments from or are determined eligible
31 to participate in the WAGES Program, and certain persons who
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1 would be eligible but do not meet certain technical
2 requirements. This group includes, but is not limited to:
3 (a) The family includes a dependent child who is
4 living with a caretaker relative. Low-income, single-parent
5 families and their children.
6 (b) The family's income does not exceed the gross
7 income test limit. Low-income, two-parent families in which at
8 least one parent is disabled or otherwise incapacitated.
9 (c) The family's countable income and resources do not
10 exceed the applicable aid-to-families-with-dependent-children
11 (AFDC) income and resource standards under the AFDC state plan
12 in effect in July 1996, except as amended in the Medicaid
13 state plan to conform as closely as possible to the
14 requirements of the WAGES Program as created in s. 414.015, to
15 the extent permitted by federal law. Certain unemployed
16 two-parent families and their children.
17 (2) A person who receives payments from, who is
18 determined eligible for, or who was eligible for but lost cash
19 benefits from the federal program known as the Supplemental
20 Security Income program (SSI). This category includes a
21 low-income person age 65 or over and a low-income person under
22 age 65 considered to be permanently and totally disabled.
23 (3) A child under age 21 living in a low-income,
24 two-parent family, and a child under age 7 living with a
25 nonrelative, if the income and assets of the family or child,
26 as applicable, do not exceed the resource limits under the
27 WAGES Program.
28 (4) A child who is eligible under Title IV-E of the
29 Social Security Act for subsidized board payments, foster
30 care, or adoption subsidies, and a child for whom the state
31 has assumed temporary or permanent responsibility and who does
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1 not qualify for Title IV-E assistance but is in foster care,
2 shelter or emergency shelter care, or subsidized adoption.
3 (5) A pregnant woman for the duration of her pregnancy
4 and for the post partum period as defined in federal law and
5 rule, or a child under age 1, if either is living in a family
6 that has an income which is at or below 150 percent of the
7 most current federal poverty level, or, effective January 1,
8 1992, that has an income which is at or below 185 percent of
9 the most current federal poverty level. Such a person is not
10 subject to an assets test. Further, a pregnant woman who
11 applies for eligibility for the Medicaid program through a
12 qualified Medicaid provider must be offered the opportunity,
13 subject to federal rules, to be made presumptively eligible
14 for the Medicaid program.
15 (6) A child born after September 30, 1983, living in a
16 family that has an income which is at or below 100 percent of
17 the current federal poverty level, who has attained the age of
18 6, but has not attained the age of 19. In determining the
19 eligibility of such a child, an assets test is not required.
20 (7) A child living in a family that has an income
21 which is at or below 133 percent of the current federal
22 poverty level, who has attained the age of 1, but has not
23 attained the age of 6. In determining the eligibility of such
24 a child, an assets test is not required.
25 (8) A person who is age 65 or over or is determined by
26 the agency department to be disabled, whose income is at or
27 below 100 percent of the most current federal poverty level
28 and whose assets do not exceed limitations established by the
29 agency department. However, the agency department may only
30 pay for premiums, coinsurance, and deductibles, as required by
31 federal law, unless additional coverage is provided for any or
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1 all members of this group by s. 409.904(1).
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7 And the title is amended as follows:
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11 amending s. 409.903, F.S.; providing Medicaid
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