Bill > LD896

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to apply, by December 31, 2025, to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or demonstration project or to amend a pending or current waiver or demonstration project to provide continuous eligibility to a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program. Upon the approval of such a waiver or demonstration project, it requires the department to adopt rules to establish the continuous eligibility of a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program, regardless of the child's family's change in income. Continuous eligibility must be maintained through the end of the month in which the child attains 6 years of age, but a child's eligibility to receive continuous coverage must be redetermined or terminated if the child is no longer a resident of the State, the child's parent or legal guardian requests termination of the child's eligibility, the child dies or the department determines that the child's eligibility was erroneously granted at the most recent determination, redetermination or renewal of eligibility because of agency error, fraud, abuse or perjury.

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Anne Carney (D)*,  Michelle Boyer (D),  Stacy Brenner (D),  Flavia DeBrito (D),  Henry Ingwersen (D),  Adam Lee (D),  Michele Meyer (D),  Kelly Noonan Murphy (D),  Dan Shagoury (D), 

Reported Out: OTP-AM/ONTP (on 05/29/2025)

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