Community based in-home services program.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on prioritization criteria or age limits for service provision beyond eighteen (18) years of age.

Community Based In-Home Services Program

This law makes the availability of a program providing community-based in-home services for Wyoming senior citizens and disabled adults dependent on funding.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the requirement that the Wyoming Department of Health must provide community-based in-home services to make it conditional on available funds.

Who It Names or Affects

• Senior citizens and disabled adults in Wyoming
• The Wyoming Department of Health

Terms To Know

Community-based in-home services

Services provided to people at home instead of in a nursing home or other institution.

Institutional care

Care given in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not specify how much funding is needed for the program.
• It's unclear what happens if there are not enough funds to support all those who need services.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 21LSO-0525
Bill No.:

SF0139

Effective:

7/1/2021 12:00:00 AM

LSO No.:

21LSO-0525

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0053

Chapter No.:

133

Prime Sponsor:

Senate Appropriations Committee

Catch Title:

Community based in-home services program.

Subject:

Funding for the community based in-home services program.

Summary/Major Elements:

Current law requires the Wyoming Department of Health to administer a state program to provide community based in-home services for Wyoming senior citizens and disabled adults eighteen (18) years of age and older. This act makes the Department's responsibility to administer this program subject to the availability of funding.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

21LSO-0525

ORIGINAL Senate

File No
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SF0139

ENROLLED ACT NO. 53,

SENATE

SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2021 General Session

AN ACT relating to community based in-home services; subjecting availability of the community based in-home services program to the availability of funds; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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2
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1208(a) is amended to read:

9
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2
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1208.

Community based in
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home services.

(a)

Subject to the availability of funds, t
he department of health shall administer a state program to provide community based in
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home services for Wyoming senior citizens and disabled adults eighteen (18) years of age and older.

Priority shall be given to persons at risk of placement in nursing homes, assisted living or other institutional care settings and the program may serve persons who are not senior citizens if the program's services are needed to avoid institutional placement.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2021
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(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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