US Congress Senate Bill 1827 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-7)
Status: Introduced on September 18 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-12-20 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

KIDS Act of 2017 Keep Kids' Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill extends funding through FY2022 for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project. In addition, the bill reauthorizes through FY2022: the qualifying-states option (which allows states that provided coverage to now CHIP-eligible children prior to CHIP's enactment to continue to provide such coverage), and the express-lane eligibility option (which allows states to use eligibility findings from other public benefit programs to determine children's eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP). Beginning in FY2020, the bill allows state child-health plans to adopt more restrictive eligibility standards with respect to children in families whose income exceeds 300% of the poverty line. (Sec. 3) The bill extends funding through FY2022 for the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program. (Sec. 4) The bill extends funding through FY2022 for specified outreach and enrollment grants. (Sec. 5) Current law provides states with an enhanced Federal Matching Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for child-health assistance through FY2019. The bill maintains the enhanced FMAP in FY2020, but halves the percentage-point increase.

KIDS Act of 2017 Keep Kids' Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017

Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]
Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]
Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-12-20	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.
2017-12-20	Senate	Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-197.
2017-09-18	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB3921 (Related) 2017-10-23 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 263.
HJR125 (Related) 2018-01-16 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1827/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1827/BILLS-115s1827is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1827/BILLS-115s1827rs.pdf