2009 Hawaii Code
Volume 07
TITLE 20 - SOCIAL SERVICES
CHAPTER 346 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
§346-59.4 - Medical assistance to other children.

     §346-59.4  Medical assistance to other children.  [Repeal and reenactment on June 30, 2010.  L Sp 2009, c 8, §2.]  The department shall provide state-funded medical assistance free of charge to persons less than nineteen years of age whose family income is at or below three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level for Hawaii and who are:

     (1)  Legal permanent residents who arrived after August 22, 1996;

     (2)  Persons who are permanently residing under color of law; and

     (3)  Nonimmigrants from the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands who are citizens of:

         (A)  The Marshall Islands;

         (B)  The Federated States of Micronesia; or

         (C)  Palau, as defined by the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, P.L. 99-239, or the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Government of Palau, P.L. 99-658,

who are otherwise eligible for benefits under the State's medicaid programs, including QUEST and the State's children health insurance program, but are ineligible due to restricted eligibility rules imposed by Title XXI of the Social Security Act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996, the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, P.L. 99-239, the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Government of Palau, P.L. 99-658, or any other provision of federal law denying medical assistance to nonimmigrants who are citizens of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or Palau. [L 2000, c 224, §2; am L 2007, c 236, §§4, 7]

 

Note

 

  Infant and children's health care program, reports through 2011 legislature (repealed June 30, 2012).  L 2007, c 236, §§2, 3; L 2008, c 239; L Sp 2009, c 8.