Section 15-109.2 - Benefits and services for incarcerated or institutionalized individuals. ( subject to contingency.)To the extent authorized by federal law or regulation, if a Program recipient who is at least 21 years old but is under the age of 65 years is incarcerated or is admitted to an institution for the treatment of mental disease, the Department:
(1) Shall suspend Program benefits for that individual while the individual is incarcerated or is in the institution; and(2) May not terminate Program benefits for that individual based on the incarceration of the individual or on the admission of the individual to the institution.Contingent on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's receipt of funding for 28 the development of a new computerized eligibility system for the Maryland Medical 29 Assistance Program and the implementation of the system, and shall take effect on 30 the date the system is implemented. 2005, ch. 82, §2.