[20070118]RS22553_H.R.的SCHIP条款6164（2006年NIH改革法案）.pdf

Order Code RS22553Updated January 18, 2007SCHIP Provisions of H.R. 6164 (NIH Reform Act of 2006)Chris L. PetersonSpecialist in Social LegislationDomestic Social Policy DivisionSummaryThe State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a federal-state matchingprogram providing health insurance to targeted low-income children (and some adults)in families with income above Medicaid eligibility levels. Because SCHIP is acapped-grant program, it is possible for states to exhaust all of the federal SCHIP fundsavailable to them in a given year. According to data available in late December 2006,14 states are projected to exhaust their federal SCHIP funds in FY2007 (i.e., have afederal SCHIP shortfall). On January 15, 2007, the President signed into law H.R. 6164(National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, P.L. 109-482). The SCHIPprovisions of H.R. 6164 require a redistribution of certain unspent FY2004 and FY2005SCHIP original allotments to shortfall states in FY2007. The goal is to delay as long aspossible the date in FY2007 on which any state faces a shortfall. Congress may addressthe remaining FY2007 shortfalls as part of reauthorization that provides SCHIP withappropriations