Amendment H-8321 to HF 2643
Relating to state and local finances by making appropriations, providing for legal and regulatory responsibilities, providing for other properly related matters, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Withdrawn · June 14, 2020
Filed June 14, 2020 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 10, after line 21 by inserting: “A portion of the funds appropriated in this section shall be used to pay for both the federal and nonfederal shares of medical assistance for a person who is otherwise ineligible for medical care coverage, has established residence in this state in accordance with the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the government of the United States and the governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau pursuant to 48 U.S.C. §1921, Tit. 1, Article IV, section 141, and who, as of a date referenced in the most recently published enumeration of qualified nonimmigrants, is a resident of an affected jurisdiction as specified in the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-188. The state shall cease payment of the federal share and shall only pay the state share of medical assistance under this unnumbered paragraph when persons described in this unnumbered paragraph become eligible for medical assistance pursuant to federal law.”