§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legislature (repealed June 30, 2012).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.