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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="15-134.1" title_number="15" title_name="Assistance Programs" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Medical and Pharmacy Assistance Programs">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “legal resident” means an individual who maintains the State as the individual’s principal establishment, home of record, or permanent home and to where, whenever absent due to uniformed services obligation, the individual intends to return.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A dependent of a legal resident of the State who is determined eligible to receive home– and community–based waiver services or other waiver services from the Department under this title shall retain eligibility for the services:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Regardless of whether the legal resident leaves the State due to the legal resident’s uniformed services assignment outside the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the dependent is otherwise eligible for the services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a dependent of a legal resident is on a waiting list for home– and community–based waiver services or other waiver services to be provided under this title, the Department shall allow the dependent to remain on the waiting list for services while the legal resident is outside the State due to the legal resident’s uniformed services assignment outside the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall reinstate services provided under this title to a dependent who resides with the legal resident while the legal resident is outside the State due to the legal resident’s uniformed services assignment outside the State:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>On the relocation of the dependent to the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a request for services is made.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
