SB1461
Foster care; local in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Foster care; enrollment in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance.
Directs local departments of social services to ensure that any individual who was in foster care on his eighteenth birthday is enrolled, unless the individual objects, in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance, provided that such individual is eligible to receive such health care services and was enrolled in such ... (More) program on his eighteenth birthday. The bill requires local departments to provide basic information about such health care services and inform such individuals that, if eligible, they will be enrolled in the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance unless they object. The bill directs the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/16/2017 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103237D
- 01/16/2017 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/19/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1461)
- 01/27/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104696D-S1
- 01/27/2017 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1461S1)
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104696D-S1
- 01/31/2017 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1461S1
- 02/01/2017 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2017 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/03/2017 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2017 - House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/09/2017 - House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2017 - House: Read second time
- 02/13/2017 - House: Read third time
- 02/13/2017 - House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2017 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/2017 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/15/2017 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1461ER)
- 02/15/2017 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1461ER)
- 02/15/2017 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/17/2017 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/17/2017 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- 02/17/2017 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- 02/23/2017 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 203 (effective 7/1/17)
- 02/23/2017 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0203)
