Relating to the provision of Medicaid coverage and services to certain inmates under the Medicaid program

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 31, 2024
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 31, 2024
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 14, 2024
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a request to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services for a waiver pursuant to the federal Medicaid reentry section 1115 demonstration opportunity to provide Medicaid coverage and services to facilitate continuity of care and improve care transitions to the community for individuals who are soon to be former inmates of a public institution, and who are otherwise eligible for Medicaid.

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

House subcommittee

Named January 31, 2024. On February 8, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. Brian K. Lohse REmail
• Rep. Thomas Jay Moore REmail
• Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell DEmail

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Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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