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S.2923
Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M.(introduced 7/26/2000)
Latest Major Action: 7/26/2000 Referred to Senate committee
Title: A bill to amend title XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for FamilyCare coverage for parents of enrolled children, and for other purposes.
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7/26/2000:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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COSPONSORS(20), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Akaka, Daniel K. - 7/26/2000 Sen Baucus, Max - 7/26/2000
Sen Breaux, John B. - 7/26/2000 Sen Bryan, Richard H. - 7/26/2000
Sen Chafee, Lincoln D. - 7/26/2000 Sen Collins, Susan M. - 7/26/2000
Sen Conrad, Kent - 7/26/2000 Sen Daschle, Thomas A. - 7/26/2000
Sen Graham, Bob - 7/26/2000 Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 7/26/2000
Sen Kerrey, J. Robert - 7/26/2000 Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - 7/26/2000
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 7/26/2000 Sen Moynihan, Daniel Patrick - 7/26/2000
Sen Reed, Jack - 7/26/2000 Sen Robb, Charles S. - 7/26/2000
Sen Rockefeller IV, John D. - 7/26/2000 Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. - 7/27/2000
Sen Schumer, Charles E. - 7/26/2000 Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - 7/26/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
7/26/2000--Introduced.

FamilyCare Act of 2000 - Renames the State Children's Health Insurance program (SCHIP) under title XXI of the Social Security Act (SSA) as the FamilyCare program to provide for: (1) FamilyCare coverage of parents under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) as well as new SSA title XXI; (2) optional FamilyCare coverage of parents of targeted low-income children; (3) automatic eligibility for FamilyCare coverage of children born to a parent on Family Care assistance; (4) optional coverage of legal immigrants and of children through age 20 under both Medicaid and FamilyCare; (5) application of simplified FamilyCare procedures under Medicaid; (6) increased welfare-to-work transition (from six months to 12 months) under FamilyCare; (7) elimination of the 100 hour rule and other SSA title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) related eligibility restrictions under FamilyCare; (8) limitations on specified conflicts of interests under SSA titles XIX and XXI; (9) increased FamilyCare allotment for FY 2002 through 2004; and (10) authority to pay Medicaid expansion costs from the FamilyCare appropriation. Makes appropriations.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award demonstration grants to States to allow them to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative ways to increase access to health insurance through market reforms and other innovative means. Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants to a limited number of States to conduct innovative programs designed to improve outreach to homeless individuals and families under specified programs for the homeless (including SCHIP) with respect to enrollment of such individuals and families under such programs and the provision of services under such programs. Makes appropriations.