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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
Amendment 297 — Informed