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EXPLANATION: Require DHHS to submit a waiver to CMS to amend the state plan for services provided through family planning funds
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 33,
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, page 353, after line
14, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/(DHHS: Family Planning Waiver) With funds appropriated
and authorized to the Department of Health and Human Services
for Fiscal Year 2018-19, the department shall prepare and submit
to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) such
waivers and state plan amendments that are necessary to ensure
that no family planning funds may be expended to subsidize
abortion clinics and none of the funds appropriated herein may
be paid or granted to an organization that owns or is owned by
an abortion clinic. The department shall ensure that any such
waivers or amendments maintain ongoing access to women's health
services statewide. The waiver must be submitted to CMS no later
than October 1, 2018./
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend totals and titles to conform.