A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to make all uninsured children eligible for the State children's health insurance program, to encourage States to increase the number of children enrolled in the medicaid and State children's health insurance programs by simplifying the enrollment and renewal procedures for those programs, and for other purposes.
SCHIP Expansion Act of 2004 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) make all uninsured children eligible for SCHIP; (2) prohibit the State from excluding a child who has access to high cost coverage under a group health plan or health insurance coverage from being treated as a targeted vulnerable child under SCHIP; (3) increase Federal financial participation under SCHIP and Medicaid for States with simplified enrollment and renewal procedures for children, regardless of their family income; (4) provide for an increase in funds under SCHIP and Medicaid for outreach strategies for children; (5) increase funding for SCHIP; (6) prohibit payments to a State with an enrollment cap (or related procedures) which has not exhausted its available allotments; and (7) provide for the application of Medicaid managed care requirements to States under SCHIP.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5477-5479)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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