Subject to the availability of state funds and consistent with the federal Social Security Act, the human services department [health care authority department] shall create a medicaid waiver program and may by regulation provide prescription drugs to persons whose incomes are less than one hundred eighty-five percent of the federal poverty level and who: A. are sixty-five years of age or older; or B. have been determined to be disabled under the criteria established under the federal social security administration's disability determination rules as applied by the department. History: Laws 2003, ch. 34, § 1 and by Laws 2003, ch. 278, § 1. Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department. Cross references. — For the federal Social Security Act, see 7 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. Compiler's notes. — Laws 2003, ch. 34, § 1 and Laws 2003, ch. 278, § 1 enacted identical new sections, both effective June 20, 2003.
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