<div class="xtend"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A resolution<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>memorializing Congress to enact legislation to extend federal entitlement eligibility to <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>unadjudicated individuals held in local facilities.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>WHEREAS, United States Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, part 435.1008, states that <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>federal financial participation (FFP) is not available in expenditures for services provided to <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>individuals who are inmates of public institutions; and  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>WHEREAS, because states are unable to assume the federal share of providing medical <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>services to FFP-eligible persons being held in county jails and detention facilities, and therefore <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>terminate or sometimes suspend medical and disability benefit eligibility; and  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>WHEREAS, the cessation of benefits occurs prior to the issuance of formal charges, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>adjudication, and conviction; and  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>WHEREAS, counties must provide medical services to all persons incarcerated in local <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>jails and detention facilities; and  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>WHEREAS, as a result of the federal regulation to immediately cease FFP for medical and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>disability benefits upon apprehension, all costs of inmate medical care must be borne solely by <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>counties until the benefits are fully restored; NOW, THEREFORE,  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota  that it urges the Congress  <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>of the United States to take necessary action to enact federal legislation to amend the regulations <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>to allow federal financial participation for medical and disability benefits to incarcerated <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>individuals until convicted and sentenced to secure detention. <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the  State of Minnesota is <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>directed to prepare copies of this  memorial and transmit them to the President of  the United States, <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>the President and the Secretary of the  United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of the United  <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.4"></a><var>2.4</var>States House of Representatives, and Minnesota's Senators and  Representatives in Congress.<br />
         		
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