Signed by Governor Matt Bevin

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

A vote to pass a bill that requires tracking of Medicaid and food stamp recipients.

Highlights:

• Requires each enrollment or benefit tracking agency associated with the Medicaid Program or the food stamps program of the cabinet to receive and review information regarding the Medicaid Program or food stamp program recipients with changing circumstances that could affect their eligibility, from (Sec. 1).

• The Kentucky Lottery Corporation at a regularly scheduled interval;

• The Department for Vital Statistics on at least a monthly basis; and

• The Kentucky Division of Unemployment Insurance on at least a quarterly basis.

• Requires each enrollment or benefit tracking agency associated with the Medicaid Program or the food stamps program of the cabinet to enter into a memorandum of understanding with any department, agency, or division for information referred to in the preceding highlight (Sec. 1).

• Requires any department, agency, or division for information detailed in this section, including but not limited to, the Kentucky Lottery Corporation, the Department for Vital Statistics, the Division of Unemployment Insurance, and the Department for Community Based Services, to enter into any necessary memoranda of understanding with the enrollment or benefit tracking agency associated with the Medicaid Program or the food stamps program requesting an agreement in conjunction with the memorandum in the preceding highlight (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits the food stamps program of the cabinet from seeking, applying for, accepting, or renewing any waiver of requirements established under 7 U.S.C. sec. 2015(o), unless an economic downturn leads to an unemployment rate of ten percent or more, or the unemployment rate in any particular county is determined by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to be severe enough to require a waiver (Sec. 1).

• Requires the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit a report concerning the number of individuals using services inappropriately, the number of individuals removed from one or more public assistance programs as a consequence of a review, and the amount of public funds preserved in total and by public assistance programs and aggregated by prior years, to the Interim Joint Committees on Health and Welfare and Family Services and Appropriations and Revenue of the Legislative Research Commission, on or before December 1 of each year (Sec. 1).

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