0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO MEDICAID; AMENDING SECTION 27-2A-3 NMSA 1978 (BEING LAWS
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0003| 1994, CHAPTER 87, SECTION 3); REPEALING THE MEDICAID ESTATE RECOVERY
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0004| ACT UPON ENACTMENT OF FEDERAL MEDICAID BLOCK GRANTS.
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0006| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0007|      Section 1.  Section 27-2A-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1994, Chapter 87, Section 3) is
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0008| amended to read:
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0009|      "27-2A-3.  DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Medicaid Estate Recovery Act:
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0010|           A.  "department" means the human services department;
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0011|           B.  "estate" means real and personal property and other assets of the individual
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0012| subject to probate or administration pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code;
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0013|           C.  "homestead of modest value" means a property that does not exceed one
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0014| hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in value for property tax purposes; and
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0015|           D.  "medical assistance" means amounts paid by the department as medical
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0016| assistance pursuant to Title 19 of the Social Security Act."
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0017|      Section 2.  REPEAL.--Upon the effective date of any federal statute eliminating
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0018| medicaid entitlement in favor of medicaid block grants to the states, Sections 27-2A-1
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0019| through 27-2A-9 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1994, Chapter 87, Sections 1 through 9) are
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0020| repealed.                                       
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