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CHIP School Behavioral Health Incentive Act
Child health · Health care costs and insurance · Health care coverage and access
Key facts
Introduced: Feb 8, 2022
Chamber: Senate
Cosponsors: 1
Congress: 117th
Latest action · Mar 22, 2022
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 117-620.
Summary
CHIP School Behavioral Health Incentive Act
This bill excludes expenditures relating to initiatives for school behavioral health services from the administrative spending cap under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Currently, states may use up to 10% of their total federal CHIP expenditures on outreach, health services initiatives, and certain other activities (i.e., nonbenefit expenditures). The bill excludes health services initiatives relating to school behavioral health services from this limitation; expenditures for these and other nonbenefit expenditures may not exceed 15% of total expenditures.
Summary by Congressional Research Service.
Timeline
- Mar 22, 2022Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 117-620.
- Feb 8, 2022Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S576)
- Feb 8, 2022Introduced in Senate
Cosponsors
- Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] D-NJ
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