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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 116

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Relating to: reimbursement of wheelchairs and power mobility devices for recipients of Medical Assistance who reside in a nursing home. (FE)

Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Medical service Nursing homes and adult care Persons with disabilities

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Health Services is required to

promulgate rules that establish which medical supplies and equipment are covered

by Medical Assistance and under what conditions they will be reimbursed. This bill

establishes more circumstances under which DHS reimburses a provider for a

complex rehabilitation technology prescribed for a recipient of Medical Assistance

who resides in a nursing home. Specifically, the bill requires DHS to reimburse a

provider for complex rehabilitation technology that is provided to a recipient of

Medical Assistance who is a resident of a nursing home when the complex

rehabilitation technology will do any of the following:

1. Contribute to the recipient's independent completion of activities of daily

living.

2. Support the recipient's vocational, occupational, and psychosocial activities.

3. Provide the recipient the independent ability to move about the nursing

home, or to attain or retain self-care.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brandtjen (R) , Cabrera (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Jagler (R) , Moses (R) , Rozar (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Wichgers (R)

6 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 May 14, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 May 14, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 24, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Thiesfeldt, Wichgers, Brandtjen, Cabrera, Dittrich, Edming, Gundrum, Jagler, Moses, Sinicki, Skowronski, Steffen, Tittl, Rozar and Spiros; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Ballweg, Cowles, L. Taylor and Wanggaard

  2. Feb 24, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Mar 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 1, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Thiesfeldt

  6. May 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. May 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  8. May 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  9. May 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Sep 23, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 9-28-2021 by Committee on Rules

  11. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  12. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  13. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1