Full Text of SB2468 095th General Assembly
SB2468 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB2468
Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Carole Pankau SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act. Provides that to be eligible for benefits under the Act, an individual who is otherwise eligible must be
either a United
States citizen or included in one of certain specified categories of
non-citizens. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may, by rule, cover prenatal care or emergency
medical care for non-citizens who are not otherwise eligible under these provisions. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act is | 5 |
| amended by adding Section 22 as follows: | 6 |
| (215 ILCS 170/22 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 22. Citizenship. | 8 |
| (a) To the extent not otherwise provided in this Act
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| federal law, all individuals who receive benefits under this | 10 |
| Act must meet the citizenship requirements as established in | 11 |
| this Section.
To be eligible for benefits, an individual who is | 12 |
| otherwise eligible must be
either a United
States citizen or | 13 |
| included in one of the following categories of
non-citizens: | 14 |
| (1) United States veterans honorably discharged and | 15 |
| persons on active
military duty, and the spouse and | 16 |
| unmarried dependent children of these
persons. | 17 |
| (2) Refugees under Section 207 of the Immigration and | 18 |
| Nationality Act. | 19 |
| (3) Asylees under Section 208 of the Immigration and | 20 |
| Nationality Act. | 21 |
| (4) Persons for whom deportation has been withheld | 22 |
| under Section
243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality | 23 |
| Act. |
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| (5) Persons granted conditional entry under Section | 2 |
| 203(a)(7) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act as in | 3 |
| effect prior to April 1, 1980. | 4 |
| (6) Persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence | 5 |
| under the
Immigration and Nationality Act. | 6 |
| (7) Parolees, for at least one year, under Section | 7 |
| 212(d)(5) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act. | 8 |
| (8) Nationals of Cuba or Haiti admitted on or after | 9 |
| April 21, 1980. | 10 |
| (9) Amerasians from Vietnam, and their close family | 11 |
| members, admitted
through the Orderly Departure Program | 12 |
| beginning on March 20, 1988. | 13 |
| (10) Persons identified by the federal Office of | 14 |
| Refugee Resettlement
(ORR) as victims of trafficking. | 15 |
| (11) Persons legally residing in the United States who | 16 |
| were members of a
Hmong or Highland Laotian tribe when the | 17 |
| tribe helped United States personnel
by taking part in a | 18 |
| military or rescue operation during the Vietnam era
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| (between
August 5, 1965 and May 7, 1975); this also | 20 |
| includes the person's spouse, a
widow
or widower who has | 21 |
| not remarried, and unmarried dependent children. | 22 |
| (12) American Indians born in Canada under Section 289 | 23 |
| of the
Immigration and Nationality Act and members of an | 24 |
| Indian tribe as defined in
Section 4e of the Indian | 25 |
| Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. | 26 |
| (13) Persons who are a spouse, widow, or child of a |
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| U.S. citizen or a
spouse or child of a legal permanent | 2 |
| resident (LPR) who have been battered or
subjected to | 3 |
| extreme cruelty by the U.S. citizen or LPR or a member of | 4 |
| that
relative's family who lived with them, who no longer | 5 |
| live with the abuser or
plan
to live separately within one | 6 |
| month of receipt of assistance and whose need for
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| assistance is due, at least in part, to the abuse. | 8 |
| (b) Those persons who are in the categories set forth in | 9 |
| paragraphs (6) and (7)
of subsection (a), who enter the United | 10 |
| States on or
after August 22,
1996, shall not be eligible for 5 | 11 |
| years beginning on the date the person
entered the United | 12 |
| States. | 13 |
| (c) The Department may, by rule, cover prenatal care or | 14 |
| emergency
medical care for non-citizens who are not otherwise | 15 |
| eligible under this
Section.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 |
| becoming law.
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