REPORT TITLE:
CHIP


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE
   PROGRAM.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the federal
 
 2 children's health insurance program (CHIP) provides Hawaii with
 
 3 an important opportunity to expand health care coverage to low-
 
 4 income children who are uninsured.  CHIP is considered the
 
 5 largest expansion of health care coverage since the enactment of
 
 6 Medicare and Medicaid.
 
 7      In January 1998, the department of human services and the
 
 8 department of health convened a CHIP planning committee to
 
 9 develop and submit Hawaii's CHIP proposal prior to the federal
 
10 submittal deadline of June 30, 1999.  The proposal was completed
 
11 and submitted to the federal Health Care Financing Administration
 
12 of the Department of Health and Human Services on October 19,
 
13 1998.
 
14      The CHIP planning committee developed a proposal to expand
 
15 Hawaii's Medicaid and QUEST programs, and was submitted as a
 
16 placekeeper plan to lock in federal funding for federal fiscal
 
17 years 1998 through 2000.
 

 
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 1      Hawaii was allotted $9,900,000 for CHIP for federal fiscal
 
 2 years 1998 through 2000 with a further commitment to fund the
 
 3 program through federal fiscal year 2008.  This federal allotment
 
 4 requires a state match of $4,800,000, which represents an
 
 5 enhanced federal matching rate of sixty-five per cent.
 
 6      Although CHIP is extremely worthy of funding, continued
 
 7 constraints on state revenues precludes the inclusion of CHIP
 
 8 funding in the governor's executive budget for biennium fiscal
 
 9 years 2000 and 2001.
 
10      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the CHIP
 
11 program.
 
12      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
13 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $   or so much thereof
 
14 as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000 and the sum of $
 
15 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001
 
16 to fund CHIP.
 
17      SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
18 department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
 
19      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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21                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
 
 
 
 
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