SECTION 3. Article 1, Chapter 6, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: 44635. In administering home and communitybased “Section waiver programs, the department shall, to the extent possible, maintain the waiver status of an eligible family member of a member of the armed services who maintains his South Carolina state residence, regardless of where the service member is stationed. Consequently, a person on a waiver waiting list would return to the same place on the waiting list when the family returns to South Carolina. Furthermore, the eligible family member previously enrolled in a waiver program and who received active services would be reinstated into the waiver program once Medicaid eligibility is established, upon their return to South Carolina. It is not the intent of this section to authorize services provided outside the South Carolina Medicaid Service Area. These provisions are contingent upon the department receiving federal approval.” PART IV MilitaryConnected Children’s Welfare Task Force SECTION 4. Chapter 11, Title 63 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: 21 “Article MilitaryConnected Children’s Welfare Task Force Section 63112110. (A) There is created the ‘MilitaryConnected for the purpose of identifying Children’s Welfare Task Force’ issues related to militaryconnected children and opening communication between child welfare agencies of this State and local military installations. The task force shall study issues relating to militaryconnected children as the task force may undertake or as may be requested by the General Assembly. (B) The task force is to be comprised of the following members: (1) the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, or his designee; (2) the Governor, or his designee;
SECTION 3. Article 1, Chapter 6, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: “Section 44635. In administering home and communitybased waiver programs, the department shall, to the extent possible, maintain the waiver status of an eligible family member of a member of the armed services who maintains his South Carolina state residence, regardless of where the service member is stationed. Consequently, a person on a waiver waiting list would return to the same place on the waiting list when the family returns to South Carolina. Furthermore, the eligible family member previously enrolled in a waiver program and who received active services would be reinstated into the waiver program once Medicaid eligibility is established, upon their return to South Carolina. It is not the intent of this section to authorize services provided outside the South Carolina Medicaid Service Area. These provisions are contingent upon the department receiving federal approval.” PART IV MilitaryConnected Children’s Welfare Task Force SECTION 4. Chapter 11, Title 63 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: “Article 21 MilitaryConnected Children’s Welfare Task Force Section 63112110. (A) There is created the ‘MilitaryConnected Children’s Welfare Task Force’ for the purpose of identifying issues related to militaryconnected children and opening communication between child welfare agencies of this State and local military installations. The task force shall study issues relating to militaryconnected children as the task force may undertake or as may be requested by the General Assembly. (B) The task force is to be comprised of the following members: (1) the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, or his designee; (2) the Governor, or his designee;
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