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Legislator introduces bill to update CHIP eligibility tied to federal poverty level
Summary
Representative Carpenter introduced RSO540 to update the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility reference from a 2008 federal poverty level to the current federal poverty level. The committee approved the bill introduction by voice vote.
Representative Carpenter introduced RSO540 to the Committee on Appropriations, saying the bill would change the CHIP eligibility language that currently references the federal poverty level from February 2008 to the current federal poverty level.
Carpenter said the change has been included as a proviso in past budgets and is now being submitted as a bill. The committee moved the bill introduction and Representative Turk seconded. The committee approved the bill introduction by voice vote; no roll‑call tally was recorded in the transcript.
Why it matters: The proposal would update statutory language that ties eligibility thresholds to a fixed 2008 poverty standard and align it with the current federal poverty level, though the transcript records only the introduction and not a substantive committee hearing on the bill’s merits.
