Report Title:
Health and Human Services
Description:
Increases eligibility to the State Children's Health Insurance Program to 300% of the federal poverty level, or the maximum allowed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Implements outreach program for children in need of insurance. SB585 HD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
585 |
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TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
S.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
H.D. 1 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to state funds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature intends that a percentage of the funds received by the department of health from the tobacco settlement moneys be transferred to the department of human services to provide health care coverage to children under nineteen who are eligible for the State's children's health insurance program (SCHIP). However, in fiscal years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, the funds designated for SCHIP were not fully expended.
The legislature believes that because the funds were not fully expended and there are children in need of health insurance, SCHIP should be expanded to provide health insurance for more children.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to appropriate the unexpended, accumulated funds from the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund to the department of human services to:
(1) Expand eligibility for SCHIP; and
(2) Provide outreach services to qualified children in need of health insurance.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund the sum of $6,259,886 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004 for the State's children's health insurance program to:
(1) Expand eligibility to three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level guideline for Hawaii, or the maximum amount allowable by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and
(2) Provide outreach services to qualified children who are in need of health insurance.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.