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BILL · 2007–08 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 2993

HB 2993: Medical assistance

Facilitating continuity of medical assistance for persons confined in correctional institutions and institutions for mental diseases.

Summary

  • Requires the Department of Social and Health Services to suspend medical benefits of a person going into confinement, and immediately reinstate the confined person's medical benefits upon that person's release from confinement.
  • Creates procedures for recertification of medical benefits for people who have lost his or her medical benefits due to confinement.
  • Minor substantive and technical changes are made in sections of the code to make it conform with practice and procedures that would be established under this bill.
  • Requires the Department of Social and Health Services to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate systems for assisting persons released from institutional confinement to expeditiously establish or re-establish medical assistance eligibility.

From the House Bill Report (HB 2993), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
  1. IntroducedJan 21, 2008
  2. Out of committeeFeb 12, 2008
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36)
Introduced
January 21, 2008 in the House
Last action
February 12, 2008
Companion bill
SB 6584
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 2993, SHB 2993

AN ACT Relating to facilitating continuity of medical assistance for persons confined in correctional institutions and institutions for mental diseases;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36)

6 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Ruth Kagi D-32Bob Hasegawa D-11Jeannie Darneille D-27Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney D-46Mary Helen Roberts D-21Timm Ormsby D-3

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SHB 2993)
  2. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  3. APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 2993)
  4. APP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  5. APP - Executive action taken by committee.
  6. Referred to Appropriations.
  7. Minority; do not pass.
  8. HS - Majority; do pass.
  9. HS - Executive action taken by committee.
  10. First reading, referred to Human Services.

HB 2993 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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