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An Act to require the Department of Medical Assistance Services to amend waiver eligibility criteria to allow dependents of foreign service members to remain on waiting lists for services when assigned outside the Commonwealth.
[H 1812]
Approved March 18, 2019
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. That the Department of Medical Assistance
Services shall amend eligibility criteria for the Community Living waiver
and the Family and Individual Support waiver to allow the dependent of a
foreign service member 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 foreign service member
to an assignment outside of the Commonwealth, so long as the foreign service
member maintains the Commonwealth as his legal residence to which he intends to
return following completion of the assignment.