(1) Repealed.

(2) If approved by the joint budget committee and subject to available appropriations, the state department shall submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services an amendment to the state medical assistance plan, and shall request any necessary waivers from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services, to permit the state department to expand medical assistance eligibility as provided in this part 14 for the purpose of implementing a medicaid buy-in program for people with disabilities who are in the basic coverage group or the medical improvement group. In addition, the state department shall apply to the secretary of the federal department of health and human services for a medicaid infrastructure grant, if available, to develop and implement the federal "Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999", Pub.L. 106-170.

(3) If the state medical assistance plan amendment and all necessary waivers are approved, the state department shall implement the medicaid buy-in program provided in this part 14 not later than three months after receiving full federal approval, whichever is later.

(4) The state department shall seek federal authorization to implement a medicaid buy-in program for adults who are eligible to receive home- and community-based services pursuant to the supported living services waiver; the persons with brain injury waiver, part 7 of this article; and the spinal cord injury waiver pilot program, part 13 of this article. The state department shall prepare and submit any requests necessary for federal approval not later than January 1, 2017, and shall implement the medicaid buy-in program pursuant to this subsection (4) not later than three months after receiving federal approval.