PNA Modernization Act

Bill: 116-hr-3853
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2019-07-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Housing for the elderly and disabled

Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Medicaid

Social security and elderly assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Personal Needs Allowance Modernization Act or the PNA Modernization Act</b></p> <p>This bill increases the minimum monthly personal needs allowance under Medicaid for an institutionalized individual and couple from $30 to $60 and from $60 to $120, respectively. (The personal needs allowance is deducted from an individual's total income when determining the individual's contribution to the cost of institutionalized care under Medicaid.)</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3853 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 18, 2019 Ms. Wexton (for herself and Ms. Norton ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase under the Medicaid program the minimum monthly personal needs allowance for institutionalized individuals and couples, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Personal Needs Allowance Modernization Act or the PNA Modernization Act . 2. Increasing under the Medicaid program the minimum monthly personal needs allowance for institutionalized individuals and couples Section 1902(q)(2) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a(q)(2) ) is amended— (1) by inserting after $30 the following: (or, beginning January 1, 2020, $60) ; (2) by inserting after and $60 the following: (or, beginning January 1, 2020, $120) ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new sentence: Whenever benefit amounts under title II of the Social Security Act are increased by any percentage effective with a month after November 2020 as a result of a determination made under section 215(i) of such Act, each of the dollar amounts in effect under the previous sentence for the month before such month shall be increased by the same percentage. .