Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0912

Relating to human services; requiring the commissioner of human +services to
include with biennial budgets information on asset transfers or +diversions used
to qualify for public assistance programs; requiring the senior +linkage service
under the board on aging to link callers with lenders and others +capable of
providing information and assistance on the use of assets to pay for +long term
care services without enrolling in public assistance programs; +prohibiting
certain transfers of assets for less than fair market value to +qualify for
medical assistance (MA), excepting homesteads and certain other +transfers,
imposing a period of ineligibility on persons making the prohibited +transfers;
requiring and providing for federal permission for prohibited +transfers
effectiveness purposes, requiring certain commissioner notice to the +revisor of
statutes and the legislature and publication in the state register (mk)