1998-04-08                     Senate Journal                      Page 3195
HB 459                                                                       
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(FIN) am BY THE HOUSE                                 
FINANCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                   
                                                                               
An Act establishing new eligibility for medical                               
assistance for certain disabled persons and giving                             
their eligibility for services the highest priority                            
among optional services and groups under the                                   
medical assistance program; amending the definition                            
of personal care services in a recipients home as                              
used in the medical assistance program; moving                                 
midwife services from being the first to being the                             
14th service eliminated under the medical assistance                           
program when there is insufficient funding; and                                
adjusting the priority of optional services and                                
optional eligible groups under the medical assistance                          
program in order to reflect the new priorities given                           
to the newly-eligible disabled persons and to                                  
midwife services but without otherwise changing the                            
relative order of the other optional services and                              
optional groups.                                                               
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the Health, Education and              
Social Services and Finance Committees.