HB 0039E 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation;
3	amending s. 621.94, F.S.; revising legislative intent to
4	expand use of available appropriations of Florida Healthy
5	Kids funds for the Kidcare Program under certain
6	circumstances; providing an appropriation; specifying
7	uses; providing an effective date.
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9	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11	Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
12	624.91, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
13	624.91 The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Act.--
14	(2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--
15	(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Florida
16	Healthy Kids Corporation serve as one of several providers of
17	services to children eligible for medical assistance under Title
18	XXI of the Social Security Act. Although the corporation may
19	serve other children, the Legislature intends the primary
20	recipients of services provided through the corporation be
21	school-age children with a family income below 200 percent of
22	the federal poverty level, who do not qualify for Medicaid. It
23	is also the intent of the Legislature that state and local
24	government Florida Healthy Kids funds be used to continue and
25	expand coverage, from available subject to specific
26	appropriations in the General Appropriations Act, any
27	Supplemental Appropriations Act, and this act,to children not
28	eligible for federal matching funds under Title XXI.
29	Section 2. The nonrecurring sum of $31,000,000 is
30	appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Agency for
31	Health Care Administration to provide comprehensive health
32	insurance coverage to children eligible under the Florida
33	Kidcare Program and pursuant to s. 624.91, Florida Statutes, as
34	amended by this act. Notwithstanding any language contained in
35	the General Appropriations Act, including, but not limited to,
36	Specific Appropriations 144 through 147, such funds shall be
37	used during fiscal year 2003-2004:
38	(1) To provide Kidcare benefits and coverage for eligible
39	children on the waiting list as of the effective date of this
40	act.
41	(2) For eligible children not presently on the waiting
42	list but that subsequently apply for Kidcare benefits.
43	(3) For outreach initiatives.
44	Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.