Bill > SB007

Introduced Session

Current law extends health insurance coverage to various people, including low-income pregnant and postpartum people and children in low-income families, whose immigration status would otherwise make them ineligible for coverage under state-federal programs or would limit the coverage's scope or duration. Other expansions make state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available for certain people, regardless of immigration status. The bill modifies several provisions related to these coverage expansions by: ! Prohibiting the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) from reimbursing a health-care provider, entity, or facility for providing medical services to a person who is not a lawful resident; ! Eliminating full health insurance coverage for pregnant and postpartum people who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status; ! Eliminating full health insurance coverage for children who would be eligible for medicaid or the children's basic health plan if not for their immigration status; ! Repealing the state reproductive health-care program, the medical assistance program, and the state children's basic health plan (state-funded programs) that were established to provide expanded coverage; ! Halting outreach to and enrollment of eligible groups into new coverage options; ! Removing HCPF's potential to spend in excess of an authorized amount for the state-funded programs; and ! Excluding immigrants who are not lawfully residing in the state from state-subsidized individual health insurance coverage available through the health insurance affordability enterprise.

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Larry Liston (R)*, 

Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely (on 08/21/2025)

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