Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act

Bill: 116-s-1697
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-06-03
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Adoption and foster care

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Medicaid
Latest action: action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act</b></p> <p>This bill accelerates the application of certain changes that are scheduled to take effect under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act relating to the coverage of former foster youth under Medicaid. </p> <p>Under current law, a state Medicaid program must cover former foster youth until the age of 26 if the youth were in the state's foster care system at the age of 18 and were enrolled in the state's Medicaid program while in foster care; a state may choose to also cover former foster youth from other states. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act altered these provisions to require a state Medicaid program to cover former foster youth from other states until the age of 26; such changes apply to&nbsp;former foster youth&nbsp;who reach the age of 18 on or after January 1, 2023. </p> <p>The bill instead applies these changes to&nbsp;former foster youth&nbsp;who reach the age of 18 on or after the date of enactment of this bill. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1697 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 3, 2019 Mr. Casey introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to provide for immediate eligibility for former foster youth under Medicaid.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act . 2. Providing for immediate Medicaid eligibility for former foster youth Section 1002(a)(2) of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act ( Public Law 115–271 ) is amended by striking January 1, 2023 and inserting the date of enactment of the Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act .