The Florida Senate

¹409.8134  Program enrollment and expenditure ceilings.--

(1)  Except for the Medicaid program, a ceiling shall be placed on annual federal and state expenditures and on enrollment in the Florida Kidcare program as provided each year in the General Appropriations Act. The agency, in consultation with the Department of Health, may propose to increase the enrollment ceiling in accordance with chapter 216.

(2)  Except for the Medicaid program, whenever the Social Services Estimating Conference determines that there is presently, or will be by the end of the current fiscal year, insufficient funds to finance the current or projected enrollment in the Florida Kidcare program, all additional enrollment must cease and additional enrollment may not resume until sufficient funds are available to finance such enrollment.

(3)  The agency shall collect and analyze the data needed to project Florida Kidcare program enrollment, including participation rates, caseloads, and expenditures. The agency shall report the caseload and expenditure trends to the Social Services Estimating Conference in accordance with chapter 216.

History.--ss. 37, 57, ch. 98-288.

¹Note.--Section 57, ch. 98-288, provides that:

"Sections 409.810 through 409.820, Florida Statutes, as created by this act, are repealed, subject to prior legislative review, on the first July 1 occurring at least 1 year after the effective date of an act of the United States Congress or the federal Health Care Financing Administration which:

"(1)  Reduces Florida's federal matching rate under Title XXI of the Social Security Act to less than 65 percent federal match; or

"(2)  Reduces the federal funds allotted to Florida under Title XXI of the Social Security Act to less than $250 million annually."