1998-04-17                     Senate Journal                      Page 3337
HB 459                                                                       
The Health, Education and Social Services Committee considered CS              
FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(FIN) am 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 and                   
recommended it be replaced with                                                
                                                                               
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                           
459(HES)                                                                       
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senator Wilken, Chair, Senators Leman, Ellis.                 
Signing no recommendation: Senators Ward, Green.                               
                                                                               
Previous House fiscal notes apply to the Senate Committee                      
Substitute.                                                                    
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.