Amendment105th Congress
297
- Amendment Number
- 297
- Purpose
- To provide affordable health coverage for low- and moderate-income children and for additional deficit reduction, financed by an increase in the tobacco tax; in addition to the amounts included in the bi-partisan budget agreement for one or both of the following: (1) Medicaid, including outreach activities to identify and enroll eligible children and providing 12-month continuous eligibility; and also to restore Medicaid for current disabled children losing SSI because of the new, more strict definition of childhood eligibility; and (2) a program of capped mandatory grants to States to finance health insurance coverage for uninsured children.
- Congress
- 105
- Type
- SAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- May 21, 1997
- Latest Action Text
- Motion to table SP 297 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-45. Record Vote No: 76.
- Proposed Date
- May 21, 1997
- Submitted Date
- May 21, 1997
- Chamber
- Senate
- Update Date
- Aug 15, 2021