Brief Description: Eliminating basic health plan eligibility of persons holding student visas.

Sponsors: By Representatives Dickerson, Cody, Sommers, Darneille, Schual-Berke, Kenney and Clibborn.

House Committee on Health Care
Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care

Background:

The Basic Health Plan provides coverage to people who are not eligible for Medicare, not confined in government-operated facilities, live in an area of the state served by a participating managed care program, have household income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, and agree to make periodic payments to the plan. Eligibility does not require that an enrollee be a United States citizen.

Summary:

Full-time students on a temporary visa to study in the United States are not eligible to enroll in the Basic Health Plan.

Votes on Final Passage:

House   97   0
Senate   45   0

Effective: July 24, 2005