print this pageGovernor Davis Approves Legislation Allowing Disabled to Return to Work
AB 155 Allows Workers to Maintain the Health Coverage That Made Their Recovery Possible
SACRAMENTO _ Governor Gray Davis has signed legislation, AB 155 by Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco), encouraging California's disabled population to work with the assurance of adequate health care by providing a mechanism to allow these workers to buy into the Medicaid program.
"My goal as governor is to enable as many people with disabilities to return to work and become fully engaged and productive citizens without the fear of losing the very health insurance that facilitated their recovery," said Governor Davis.
AB 155 requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to implement, by April 1, 2000, a federal option to expand Medi-Cal by increasing the net income eligibility threshold to 250 percent of the federal poverty level for working disabled persons who meet the federal definition of disability and are otherwise Medi-Cal eligible. This program is subject to the availability of federal financial participation and sunsets on April 1, 2005.
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