Relating to the diagnosis of an intellectual disability required for the Medicaid home and community-based services intellectual disability waiver

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 29, 2024
2. ✕
   Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
3. Next: House committee
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the diagnosis of an intellectual disability for the purposes of eligibility for the Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) intellectual disability waiver. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to amend Medicaid member eligibility criteria for the HCBS intellectual disability waiver to authorize, in addition to psychologists and psychiatrists, pediatricians, behavioral health providers, advanced practice registered nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, and other advanced practice providers to diagnose a person as having an intellectual disability.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text