Brief Description: Prohibiting the department of social and health services from imposing premiums on children in households with income at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

Sponsors: By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Clibborn, Morrell, Murray, Wallace, Cody, Schual-Berke, Simpson, Green, Sells, Ormsby, Appleton, Fromhold, Hunt, Kenney, Kessler, Lantz, Miloscia, Moeller and Williams; by request of Governor Gregoire).

House Committee on Health Care
House Committee on Appropriations
Senate Committee on Health & Long-Term Care
Senate Committee on Ways & Means

Background:

The Department of Social and Health Services is authorized to establish co-payment, deductible, co-insurance requirements, and other cost sharing requirements, such as premiums, for participation in Medicaid and other state-funded medical programs.

Summary:

The authority to charge premiums from recipients of medical care services is removed for children in households at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

Votes on Final Passage:

House   74   24
Senate   34   11

Effective: June 7, 2006