2025 bills / S.B. 257
S.B. 257 Medicaid Accounts Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill defines a "Medicaid shortfall" and sets the conditions under which one occurs. It requires Medicaid program costs and Medicaid expansion costs to be paid from specific dedicated accounts or funds, and sets cost control steps the state must follow if a shortfall happens.
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Official description
- defines terms, including "Medicaid shortfall"
- establishes the conditions under which a Medicaid shortfall occurs
- requires that appropriations for costs related to the Medicaid program and Medicaid expansion, respectively, be funded from a specific dedicated account or fund
- establishes a protocol of cost control measures to implement relative to the Medicaid program and Medicaid expansion in the event of a Medicaid shortfall
- makes technical corrections
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 257 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 257 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
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