130th Ohio General Assembly
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H. B. No. 6  As Introduced
As Introduced

127th General Assembly
Regular Session
2007-2008
H. B. No. 6


Representative Stewart, J. 



A BILL
To amend section 5101.51 of the Revised Code to increase the income eligibility limit for the Children's Health Insurance Program Part II to three hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.  That section 5101.51 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 5101.51.  In accordance with federal law governing the children's health insurance program, the director of job and family services may submit a state child health plan to the United States secretary of health and human services to provide, except as provided in section 5101.516 of the Revised Code, health assistance to uninsured individuals under nineteen years of age with family incomes above one hundred fifty per cent of the federal poverty guidelines but not exceeding two three hundred per cent of the federal poverty guidelines. If the director submits the plan, the director shall include both of the following in the plan:
(A) The health assistance will not begin before January 1, 2000.
(B) The health assistance will be available only while federal financial participation is available for it.
Section 2.  That existing section 5101.51 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
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