2001 House Bill 5484 ↩

Senate Roll Call 1005: Passed

To require the Family Independence Agency to establish foster care youth advisory networks to provide consultation and input to child placement agencies regarding state foster care policy. These may be existing locally-based networks, and may include youth currently or previously in foster care on advisory bodies. The bill would also require the Department of Community Health to promulgate rules to implement estate recovery programs for Medicaid recipients in long-term care programs who are 55 or older. The rules must include provisions waiving recovery based on undue hardship, for the attachment and enforcement of liens, and for waiving recovery based on cost-effectiveness. Since Medicaid is for people with few assets, estate recovery programs allow the state to seek reimbursement from assets in a person's estate.