REPORT TITLE:
Health Insurance


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds from the Tobacco Agreement Special Fund, and
as an option, from the General Fund, for the children's health
insurance program. (SB172 HD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                H.D. 1
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 Title XXI of the
 
 2 Social Security Act established the children's health insurance
 
 3 program that provides matching federal funds for states to expand
 
 4 Medicaid coverage for low-income children.  The purpose of this
 
 5 Act is to make an appropriation to provide matching funds for the
 
 6 children's health insurance program.
 
 7      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the tobacco
 
 8 agreement special fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $    or
 
 9 so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000 and
 
10 the sum of $    or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal
 
11 year 2000-2001 for the children's health insurance program for
 
12 children through age eighteen from families with income at or
 
13 below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level; provided
 
14 that:
 
15      (1)  The federal government provides a sixty-five per cent
 
16           match for the purpose for which this sum is
 
17           appropriated; and
 
18      (2)  General funds be used for the children's health
 
19           insurance program if the tobacco agreement special fund
 
20           cannot be used.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 2 department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
 
 3      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.