SS/HCS/HB 740 - This act imposes a tax upon payments received by providers of in-home services. The tax will be in an amount not to exceed six and one-half percent of the gross receipts of in-home service providers, based upon a formula set out in rules promulgated by the department of social services. The tax will take effect upon authorization by the federal centers for Medicare & Medicaid services. Revenues derived from the tax will be placed into the newly created in-home services gross receipts tax fund. The department is granted authority to revoke, or fail to renew, a provider agreement where the provider fails to pay the tax imposed. The act provides a number of conditions which may result in the expiration of the tax. The provisions of the act creating the tax on in-home service providers will expire September 1, 2011. This act extends the sunsets for the Medicaid Managed Care Organization reimbursement allowance, the Pharmacy Tax, and the intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded assessment from June 30, 2009 to September 30, 2011. The sunsets for the Federal Reimbursement Allowance assessment and Nursing Facility Reimbursement Allowance are extended from September 30, 2009 to September 30, 2011.
This act contains an emergency clause.
JASON ZAMKUS