SOCIAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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SOCIAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
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: Increases property tax credits for the elderly, exempts the elderly from sales tax on food and enhances Medicaid benefits.

: Allows the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit food pantries operating throughout the state.

: Amends various provisions related to caregiver qualifications and registration.

: Establishes a pharmaceutical relief program for senior citizens in the Department of Social Services.

: Allows the Division of Family Services to request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good cause.

: Creates Drug Courts Coordinating Commission and Drug Court Resources Fund.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program at the University of Missouri to provide assistance for immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to organ transplant patients.

: Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Division of Aging.

: Creates an income tax credit for certain gifts of personal property to persons with an income below poverty level.

: Revises duties of Joint Committee on Corrections.

: Increases access to original birth records by adopted adults.

: Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers.

: Expands eligibility for medical assistance to include persons who are aged, blind or disabled with annual incomes of up to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

: Revises laws on elder abuse, Medicaid fraud, nursing homes, public assistance, child care, and regional assessment centers.

: Disallows a state income tax deduction for retirement benefits to the extent the same are otherwise excluded or deducted from federal or Missouri adjusted gross income.

: Authorizes nonemergenecy medical transportation programs.

: Provides funding for federally qualified health centers.

: Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act.

: Includes personal care attendants in the definition of "provider" and enhances the penalties for persons who violate section 660.317.

: Transfers the Office of State Ombudsman from the Division of Aging to the Office of Lieutenant Governor.

: Amends various provisions regarding in-home care for the elderly.

: Amends various provisions regarding the standards for nursing homes.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program to provide immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to other transplant patients.

: Creates a Pharmaceutical Investment Program for Seniors to help defray the cost of pharmaceuticals for senior citizens.

: Establishes a Medicaid Pharmacy Management Program in the Department of Social Services and a Joint Committee on Pharmacy Management.

: Creates a centralized employee disqualification list for the state.

: Adds the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence to the list of regional child assessment centers to be funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Bases funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served in each area in the previous fiscal year.

: Creates a Child Abuse and Neglect Commission within the Office of Governor.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to create a Department of Senior Services.

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on their state income tax returns.

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision of in-home services for the elderly.

: Authorizes state support of federally qualified health centers, subject to appropriation.

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

: Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission.

: Expands the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly.

: Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities.

: Creates the Department of Health and Senior Services and transfers the duties of the Division of Aging to the new Department.

: Revises temporary assistance for needy families, Medicaid, and grandparents as foster parents programs; revises adoption law; provides transition-to-independence grants.

: Revises certain procedures for Administrative Hearing Commission.

: Allows foster children to receive a "balance scholarship" to state-funded colleges or universities.

: Allows a tax credit for persons who contribute to unplanned pregnancy resource centers.

: Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Dedicated additional revenue to the energy assistance program.

: Requires Medicaid eligibility for certain disabled workers.

: Provides for Medicaid eligibility for certain breast and cervical cancer patients.

: Promotes Alzheimer's awareness through public recognition and increased training.

: Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Requires long term care facilities to return unused medications to pharmacies for reuse and reimbursement.

: Creates a fixed and contingent expiration date for the federal reimbursement allowance program.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am