Bill Text: PA HB932 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Repealing certain provisions relating to county liability for nursing home care for persons at county-owned facilities.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 20-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES [HB932 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB932-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  1056

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

932

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY KILLION, MICOZZIE, ADOLPH, BAKER, BARRAR, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, GINGRICH, HENNESSEY, HESS, HORNAMAN, MILLER, MURT, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PICKETT, REICHLEY, ROSS, SCAVELLO, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 13, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MARCH 13, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An

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act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public

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welfare laws of the Commonwealth," repealing certain

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provisions relating to county liability for nursing home care

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for persons at county-owned facilities.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 472 of the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31,

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No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, amended July 7, 2005

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(P.L.177, No.42), is repealed:

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[Section 472.  Other Computations Affecting Counties.--To

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compute for each month the amount expended as medical assistance

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for public nursing home care on behalf of persons at each public

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medical institution operated by a county, county institution

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district or municipality and the amount expended in each county

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for aid to families with dependent children on behalf of

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children in foster family homes or child-caring institutions,

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plus the cost of administering such assistance. From such total

 


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amount the department shall deduct the amount of Federal funds

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properly received or to be received by the department on account

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of such expenditures, and shall certify the remainder increased

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or decreased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the sum

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certified for any previous month differed from the amount which

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should have been certified for such previous month, and by the

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proportionate share of any refunds of such assistance, to each

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appropriate county, county institution district or municipality.

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The amounts so certified shall become obligations of such

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counties, county institution districts or municipalities to be

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paid to the department for assistance: Provided, however, That

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for fiscal year 1979-80 and thereafter, the obligations of the

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counties shall be the amounts so certified representing aid to

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dependent children foster care as computed above plus one-tenth

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of the amount so certified above for public nursing home care:

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And provided further, That as to public nursing home care, for

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fiscal year 2005-2006 and thereafter, the obligations of the

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counties shall be the amount so certified above, less nine-

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tenths of the non-Federal share of payments made by the

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department during the fiscal year to county homes for public

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nursing care at rates established in accordance with section

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443.1(5).]

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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