2009 Iowa Code
Title 13 - Commerce
Subtitle 1 - Insurance and Related Regulation
CHAPTER 514I - HEALTHY AND WELL KIDS IN IOWA PROGRAM
514I.1 - INTENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

        514I.1  INTENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
         1.  It is the intent of the general assembly to provide health
      care coverage to eligible children that improves access to
      preventive, diagnostic, and treatment health services which result in
      improved health status using in part resources made available from
      the passage of Tit. XXI of the federal Social Security Act.
         2.  It is the intent of the general assembly that the program be
      implemented and administered in compliance with Tit. XXI of the
      federal Social Security Act.  If, as a condition of receiving federal
      funds for the program, federal law requires implementation and
      administration of the program in a manner not provided in this
      chapter, during a period when the general assembly is not in session,
      the department, with the approval of the hawk-i board, shall proceed
      to implement and administer those provisions, subject to review by
      the next regular session of the general assembly.
         3.  It is the intent of the general assembly, recognizing the
      importance of outreach to the successful utilization of the program
      by eligible children, that within the limitations of funding allowed
      for outreach and administration expenses, the maximum amount possible
      be used for outreach.
         4.  It is the intent of the general assembly that the hawk-i
      program be an integral part of the continuum of health insurance
      coverage and that the program be developed and implemented in such a
      manner as to facilitate movement of families between health insurance
      providers and to facilitate the transition of families to private
      sector health insurance coverage.
         5.  It is the intent of the general assembly that if federal
      reauthorization of the state children's health insurance program
      provides sufficient federal allocations to the state and
      authorization to cover such children as an option under the state
      children's health insurance program, the department shall expand
      coverage under the state children's health insurance program to cover
      children with family incomes at or below three hundred percent of the
      federal poverty level.  

         98 Acts, ch 1196, §2, 16; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §131; 2008 Acts, ch
      1188, §5, 6; 2009 Acts, ch 118, §23