605.115 Access to Medicaid funding for local school districts providing funding matches for services for eligible children with disabilities. The commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice and the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, with the cooperation of the Kentucky Board of Education and the commissioner of education, shall implement policies to assure that local school districts providing a funding match shall have direct access to Medicaid funding as Medicaid providers for the provision of health-related services to eligible children with disabilities under the age of twenty-one (21) years of age. They shall develop policies and procedures so the Department of Education can transfer the local school districts' matching funds to the Department for Medicaid Services. They shall also review state and federal statutes and regulations to determine the eligibility of local school districts to receive Medicaid reimbursement for health-related services identified on a child's individual education plan. Effective: June 20, 2005 History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 662, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 614, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 358, sec. 17, effective July 1, 1997; and ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 376, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994.