SF 220: Relating to a hawk-i program purchase option, and including effective date and contingent implementation provisions

What it does

This bill directs the director of human services to seek necessary federal waiver authority to: establish a program that allows individuals with incomes above the maximum income eligibility limit under the hawk-i program (currently 300 percent of the federal poverty level), and who otherwise meet the hawk-i program eligibility requirements (with the exception of the age limitation of less than years of age), the option of purchasing coverage for a child through the hawk-i program rather than purchasing a qualified health plan through the health insurance marketplace established pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or an individual health plan offered outside of the health insurance marketplace; to allow individuals who qualify and choose to purchase coverage through the hawk-i program to use advanced tax credits and cost-sharing credits, if eligible, to purchase the option; to permit the hawk-i program purchase option to be offered through the health insurance marketplace as a coverage option and to be compared with qualified health plans offered through the health insurance marketplace; and notwithstanding the eligibility criterion that a child must be less than years of age, allow the hawk-i purchase option to be offered to a child up to years of age.

Senate subcommittee · named February 8, 2021

• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

1. February 2, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Human Resources committee
2. February 8, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Costello, Edler and Trone Garriott