SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 55, 2141, 2224
PRINTER'S NO. 2255
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
59
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MOUL, WATSON, ZIMMERMAN, TOOHIL, BENNINGHOFF,
KORTZ, JOZWIAK AND TALLMAN, JANUARY 23, 2017
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE AMENDMENTS, IN SENATE, JULY 26, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in general powers and
duties, providing for salary, medical and hospital expenses
for employees of the Department of Human Services and
survivors' benefits and for evaluation of software programs'
efficiency; in public assistance, providing for total
population coordinated care management, further providing for
persons eligible for medical assistance, providing for
medical assistance waiver for treatment at institutions for
mental disease related to substance use disorder, for
additional funding requests for medical assistance
appropriations in fiscal year 2017-2018 and, for supporting
self-sufficiency for medical assistance receipients, further
providing for medical assistance benefit packages, coverage,
copayments, premiums and rates and providing RECIPIENTS AND
for electronic asset verification for medical assistance
eligibility based on age, blindness or disability; in
children and youth, further providing for provider
submissions and for adoption opportunity payments and
reimbursement; in nursing facility assessments, further
providing for administration and repealing provisions
relating to calculation; providing for ambulatory surgical
center data collection; and making a related repeal.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known
as the Human Services Code, is amended by adding sections to
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