208.819. Transition grants created, eligibility, amount--information and training developed--rulemaking authority.
Transition grants created, eligibility, amount--information andtraining developed--rulemaking authority.
208.819. 1. Subject to appropriations, persons institutionalized innursing homes who are MO HealthNet-eligible and who wish to move back intothe community shall be eligible for a one-time transition grant. Thetransition grant shall be limited to up to twenty-four hundred dollars tooffset the initial down payments, setup costs, and other expendituresassociated with housing a senior or person with disabilities needing homeand community-based services as such person moves out of a nursing home.Such grants shall be established and administered by the division of seniorand disability services in consultation with the department of socialservices. The division of senior and disability services and thedepartment of social services shall cooperate in actively seeking federaland private grant moneys to further fund this program; except that, suchfederal and private grant moneys shall not limit the general assembly'sability to appropriate moneys for the transition grants.
2. The department of health and senior services and the department ofmental health shall work together to develop information and training oncommunity-based service options for residents transitioning into thecommunity and shall promulgate rules as necessary. Any rule or portion ofa rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is createdunder the authority delegated in this section shall become effective onlyif it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536,RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with thegeneral assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay theeffective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently heldunconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any ruleproposed or adopted after August 28, 2009, shall be invalid and void.
(L. 2001 S.B. 236, A.L. 2009 H.B. 395)