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S.B. No. 2435 Chapter 859 1 AN ACT 2 relating to medical assistance program reimbursement for 3 guardianship expenses of certain recipients. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, 6 is amended by adding Section 32.02451 to read as follows: 7 Sec. 32.02451. REIMBURSEMENT FOR GUARDIANSHIP EXPENSES OF 8 CERTAIN RECIPIENTS. To the extent allowed by federal law, the 9 department shall provide medical assistance reimbursement for 10 compensation and costs ordered under Section 670, Texas Probate 11 Code, in a guardianship established for a medical assistance 12 recipient. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human 13 Services Commission shall adopt rules providing a procedure by 14 which a person to whom amounts are ordered paid under that section 15 may submit a claim to and receive reimbursement from the medical 16 assistance program. 17 SECTION 2. Subpart H, Part 2, Chapter XIII, Texas Probate 18 Code, is amended by adding Section 670 to read as follows: 19 Sec. 670. COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN GUARDIANS; CERTAIN OTHER 20 GUARDIANSHIP COSTS. (a) In this section: 21 (1) "Applied income" means the portion of the earned 22 and unearned income of a recipient of medical assistance or, if 23 applicable, the recipient and the recipient's spouse, that is paid 24 under the medical assistance program to a nursing home in which the
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June 19, 2009;
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