Amends and adds to existing law to provide that persons eligible for Medicaid or health insurance shall not be eligible for county medical assistance or the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Program and to provide that counties shall fund a portion of the state's share of Medicaid expansion from their sales tax distribution.
HEALTH AND WELFARE -- Amends and adds to existing law to provide that persons eligible for Medicaid or health insurance shall not be eligible for county medical assistance or the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Program and to provide that counties shall fund a portion of the state's share of Medicaid expansion from their sales tax distribution.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This legislation does the following: 1. Limits eligibility to the County Indigency Program. 2. Reassigns the first approximately $12,000,000 of county revenue sharing to the Medicaid Expansion Program. 3. Creates the Medicaid Expansion Account to receive these reassigned monies. 4. Provides for charity levy funds to also be used for Chapter 46 of Title 31, I.C. (Justice Fund Programs).
LATEST ACTION
U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2020
- Chamber
- house
- Status date
- Mar 13, 2020