                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INDIVIDUALS IN FOSTER CARE ON EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY; ENROLLMENT IN
COMMONWEALTH&#8217;S PROGRAM OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (§ 63.2-905.4)

Local departments shall ensure that any individual who was in foster care on his
eighteenth birthday is enrolled, unless the individual objects, in the
Commonwealth&#8217;s program of medical assistance established pursuant to §
32.1-325, provided that such individual is eligible to receive health care
services under the Commonwealth&#8217;s program of medical assistance and was
enrolled in such program on his eighteenth birthday. Prior to enrollment, local
departments shall provide such individuals with basic information about health
care services provided under the state plan for medical assistance services and
inform such individuals that, if eligible, they will be enrolled in the
Commonwealth&#8217;s program of medical assistance unless they object.

HISTORY: 2017, c. 203.