WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 418

certain age limitations and income standards; and generally relating to medical
assistance coverage for children.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 15-103(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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15-103.

(a) (1) The Secretary shall administer the Maryland Medical Assistance
Program.

(2) The Program:

(i) Shall provide comprehensive medical and other health care for
indigent individuals or medically indigent individuals or both;

(ii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all
pregnant women and, at a minimum, all children currently under the age of 1 whose
family income falls below 185 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the federal
law;

(iii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all
children from the age of 1 year up through and including the age of [2] 5 years whose
family income falls below [100] 133 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the
federal law;

(iv) May provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical care and other health care for
all children from the age of [3] 6 up through and including the age of 7 whose family
income falls below 100 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by federal law; and

(v) May include bedside nursing care for eligible Program recipients.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

Approved May 29, 1990.

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