SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2049
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LADD BAKER.
Read 1st time February 26, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 354, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to an exemption from the certificate of authority requirements for health maintenance organizations acting as PACE projects.
Section A. Chapter 354, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 354.407, to read as follows:
354.407. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 354.405 to the contrary, a program for all-inclusive care for the
elderly (PACE) project sponsored by a religious or charitable organization that is itself or is controlled by an entity
organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which has had its application for the operation
of a PACE program approved by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the federal Department of
Health and Human Services and is operating under such approval shall not be deemed to be engaged in any business
required to be licensed pursuant to section 354.405. Such exemption shall apply only to business conducted
pursuant to the approved PACE contract and not to any other business that such organization may conduct.
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