Section 208.631

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 208

Effective - 01 Jul 2006, 4 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  208.631.  Program established, terminates, when — definitions. — 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department of social services shall establish a program to pay for health care for uninsured children. Coverage pursuant to sections 208.631 to 208.660* is subject to appropriation. The provisions of sections 208.631 to 208.657 shall be void and of no effect after June 30, 2008.

  2. For the purposes of sections 208.631 to 208.657, "children" are persons up to nineteen years of age. "Uninsured children" are persons up to nineteen years of age who are emancipated and do not have access to affordable employer-subsidized health care insurance or other health care coverage or persons whose parent or guardian have not had access to affordable employer-subsidized health care insurance or other health care coverage for their children for six months prior to application, are residents of the state of Missouri, and have parents or guardians who meet the requirements in section 208.636. A child who is eligible for medical assistance as authorized in section 208.151 is not uninsured for the purposes of sections 208.631 to 208.657.

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(L. 1998 S.B. 632 § 208.185 subsecs. 1, 2, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1926, A.L. 2006 S.B. 1084)

Effective 7-1-06

Expires 6-30-08

*Section 208.660 was repealed by H.B. 1926, 2002.