Assembly Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 5 (BDR S-490)
Proposed by: Committee on Health and Human Services
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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 1 and 2 and adding new sections designated sections 1 through 9, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:
"Section 1. Chapter 422 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto the provisions set forth as sections 2 and 3 of this act.
Sec. 2.
"Children’s health insurance program" means the program established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1397aa to 1397jj, inclusive, to provide health insurance to uninsured children from low-income families in this state.Sec. 3.
1. The administrator shall include in the state plan for Medicaid, to the extent authorized by federal law, presumptive eligibility for women who are pregnant and for persons who are less than 19 years of age.2. The administrator shall include in the children’s health insurance program, to the extent authorized by federal law, a benefit similar to presumptive eligibility for persons who are less than 19 years of age.
Sec. 4. NRS 422.001 is hereby amended to read as follows:
and section 2 of this act have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.Sec. 5. NRS 422.050 is hereby amended to read as follows:
1. "Public assistance" includes:
2. The term does not include the children’s health insurance program.
Sec. 6. NRS 422.222 is hereby amended to read as follows:
and section 3 of this act and any program of the welfare division.2. A regulation adopted by the administrator becomes effective upon adoption or such other date as the administrator specifies in the regulation.
Sec. 7. NRS 422.270 is hereby amended to read as follows:
422.270 The department, through the welfare division, shall:
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 432.010 to 432.085, inclusive, administer all public welfare programs of this state, including:
(a) State supplementary assistance;
(b) Temporary assistance for needy families;
(c) Medicaid;
(d) Food stamp assistance;
(e) Low-income home energy assistance;
(f) The program for child care and development;
(g) The program for the enforcement of child support;
(h)
The children’s health insurance program; and(i)
Other welfare activities and services provided for by the laws of this state.2. Act as the single state agency of the State of Nevada and its political subdivisions in the administration of any federal money granted to the
3. Cooperate with the Federal Government in adopting state plans, in all matters of mutual concern, including adoption of methods of administration found by the Federal Government to be necessary for the efficient operation of welfare programs, and in increasing the efficiency of welfare programs by prompt and judicious use of new federal grants which will assist the welfare division in carrying out the provisions of NRS 422.070 to 422.410, inclusive
4. Observe and study the changing nature and extent of welfare needs and develop through tests and demonstrations effective ways of meeting those needs and employ or contract for personnel and services supported by legislative appropriations from the state general fund or money from federal or other sources.
5. Enter into reciprocal agreements with other states relative to public assistance, welfare services and institutional care, when deemed necessary or convenient by the administrator.
6. Make such agreements with the Federal Government as may be necessary to carry out the supplemental security income program.
Sec. 8. NRS 232.320 is hereby amended to read as follows:
232.320 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the director:
(a) Shall appoint, with the consent of the governor, chiefs of the divisions of the department, who are respectively designated as follows:
(1) The administrator of the aging services division;
(2) The administrator of the health division;
(3) The state welfare administrator; and
(4) The administrator of the division of child and family services.
(b) Shall administer, through the divisions of the department, the provisions of
(c) Shall, after considering advice from agencies of local governments and nonprofit organizations which provide social services, adopt a master plan for the provision of human services in this state. The director shall revise the plan biennially and deliver a copy of the plan to the governor and the legislature at the beginning of each regular session. The plan must:
(1) Identify and assess the plans and programs of the department for the provision of human services, and any duplication of those services by federal, state and local agencies;
(2) Set forth priorities for the provision of those services;
(3) Provide for communication and the coordination of those services among nonprofit organizations, agencies of local government, the state and the Federal Government;
(4) Identify the sources of funding for services provided by the department and the allocation of that funding;
(5) Set forth sufficient information to assist the department in providing those services and in the planning and budgeting for the future provision of those services; and
(6) Contain any other information necessary for the department to communicate effectively with the Federal Government concerning demographic trends, formulas for the distribution of federal money and any need for the modification of programs administered by the department.
(d) May, by regulation, require nonprofit organizations and state and local governmental agencies to provide information to him regarding the programs of those organizations and agencies, excluding detailed information relating to their budgets and payrolls, which he deems necessary for his performance of the duties imposed upon him pursuant to this section.
(e) Has such other powers and duties as are provided by law.
2. The governor shall appoint the administrator of the mental hygiene and mental retardation division.
Sec. 9. 1. This section and sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act become effective on July 1, 1999.
2. Sections 4 to 8, inclusive, of this act become effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 1999.".
Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
"AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring the department of human resources to include presumptive eligibility for pregnant women and persons who are less than 19 years of age in the state plan for Medicaid; requiring the department of human resources to include a similar benefit in the children’s health insurance program to the extent authorized by federal law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.".
Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:
"SUMMARY—Makes various changes concerning benefits provided to pregnant women and children through Medicaid and children’s health insurance program. (BDR 38-490)".