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HB 459                                                                       
Senator Taylor requested that the reconsideration on SENATE CS                 
FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(RLS) be taken up. The bill                       
was before the Senate on reconsideration.                                      
                                                                               
The question to be reconsidered: Shall SENATE CS FOR CS FOR                    
HOUSE BILL NO. 459(RLS) 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 seventh service eliminated under the medical            
assistance program when there is insufficient funding; adjusting the           
priority of optional services and optional  eligible  groups  under the        
                                                                               
                                                                               

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HB 459                                                                       
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; relating to catastrophic illness        
assistance; establishing a medical assistance program for chronic and          
acute medical conditions; and providing for an effective date pass             
the Senate? The roll was taken with the following result:                      
                                                                               
SCS CSHB 459(RLS)                                                              
Third Reading - On Reconsideration                                             
Effective Dates                                                                
                                                                               
YEAS:  20   NAYS:  0   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                              
                                                                               
Yeas:  Adams, Donley, Duncan, Ellis, Green, Halford, Hoffman,                  
Kelly, Leman, Lincoln, Mackie, Miller, Parnell, Pearce, Phillips,              
Sharp, Taylor, Torgerson, Ward, Wilken                                         
                                                                               
and so, SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(RLS)                           
passed the Senate on reconsideration.                                          
                                                                               
Senator Taylor moved and asked unanimous consent that the vote on              
the passage of the bill be considered the vote on the effective date           
clauses. Without objection, it was so ordered and the bill was                 
referred to the Secretary for engrossment.