HOUSE BILL No. 5452


     January 14, 1998, Introduced by Reps. Olshove, Martinez, Baird, Hale, Harder, Brewer, Curtis, Schauer, Goschka and Baade and referred to the Committee on Human Services and Children.


        A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

   "The social welfare act,"

   (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 110a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 110A.  (1) THE AMOUNT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PAID ON

 2    BEHALF OF A RECIPIENT IS NOT A CLAIM AGAINST EITHER OF THE

 3    FOLLOWING:

 4         (A) THE ESTATE OF THE RECIPIENT FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THAT

 5    RECIPIENT.

 6         (B) THE ESTATE OF A DECEASED SPOUSE WHO SURVIVED THE

 7    RECIPIENT.

 8         (2) THE STATE SHALL NOT IMPOSE A LIEN AGAINST REAL PROPERTY

 9    OF A RECIPIENT BEFORE OR AFTER HIS OR HER DEATH TO SECURE AMOUNTS

10    PROPERLY PAID FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ON BEHALF OF THAT

11    RECIPIENT.


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 1         (3) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "RECIPIENT" MEANS A PERSON WHO

 2    RECEIVES MEDICAL ASSISTANCE UNDER THIS ACT.




















































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