Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option and including effective date provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2023
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

Under current federal law, pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries are eligible for at least pregnancy-related services through the end of the month in which the 60-day period beginning on the last day of the pregnancy ends. 1319) provide the option to states to submit a state plan amendment to provide postpartum Medicaid coverage for months after the end of a pregnancy for a five-year period. A provision under the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 removed the five-year limitation. This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services for approval of the new option to provide months of continuous postpartum coverage under the Medicaid program to pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid program.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named January 17, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Jeff Edler R
• Sen. Janet Petersen DEmail
• Sen. David D. Rowley REmail

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• SF 2005 Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option
  89th General Assembly · In committee · similar
  Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

• HF 690 Relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option, making an appropriation, and…
  90th General Assembly · In committee
  Very similar
• HSB 226 HSB 226
  90th General Assembly · In committee
  Very similar

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.