(1)__At least one member of the individual's household has attained 62 years of age during the year for which relief is requested;

(2)__The individual is currently not married and has attained 55 years of age during the year for which relief is requested and is, due to disability, receiving federal disability payments, such as supplemental security income;

(3)__The individual is currently married and has attained 55 years of age during the year for which relief is requested and both the individual and the individual's spouse are, due to disability, receiving federal disability payments, such as supplemental security income; or

(4)__The individual is disabled and, due to disability, receives federal disability payments.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §254, sub-§9 is enacted to read:

9.__Prescription drugs provided.__Prescription drugs provided under the program must include all prescription drugs provided under the Medicaid program under this Title.

Sec. 3. 22 MRSA §3174-G, sub-§1-A, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 643, Pt. RR, §4, is amended to read:

1-A. Elderly prescription drug program. The department shall apply to the federal Health Care Financing Administration for a waiver to provide Medicaid prescription drug benefits to qualified persons 62 years of age or older and persons 20 years of age and older who are considered to be disabled, by the standards of the federal Social Security program. The department must seek the highest income level for which the department is able to obtain federal approval. The department shall limit the state share of program costs to the General Fund amounts available to the department from appropriations to the Low Cost Drugs for Maine's Elderly program and funds received pursuant to section 3174-R. The department shall pursue this waiver in the manner most likely to receive federal approval, including packaging this request in a larger waiver request with other Medicaid initiatives for which the department must seek a waiver of any type or another form of approval from the federal Health Care Financing Administration. The waiver request required by this subsection must be submitted to the federal Health Care Financing Administration no later than January 1, 1999. The