CHAPTER 671
An Act to require the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend waiver eligibility criteria to allow dependents of active duty military members to remain on waiting lists for services when stationed outside the Commonwealth.
Approved March 27, 2015
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. That the Department of Medical Assistance
Services shall amend eligibility criteria for waivers supporting individuals
with intellectual and developmental disabilities to allow the dependent of an
active duty member of the military who was added to the waiting list for
services through such waivers while he was a resident of the Commonwealth to
maintain his position on the waiting list following a transfer of the active
duty military member to an assignment outside of the Commonwealth, so long as
the active duty military member maintains the Commonwealth as his legal
residence to which he intends to return following completion of military
service.