Full Text of SB2989 96th General Assembly
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Sen. Carole Pankau
Filed: 2/24/2010
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2989
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2989 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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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
or | 9 |
| 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. |
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| (2) Refugees under Section 207 of the Immigration and | 2 |
| Nationality Act. | 3 |
| (3) Asylees under Section 208 of the Immigration and | 4 |
| Nationality Act. | 5 |
| (4) Persons for whom deportation has been withheld | 6 |
| under Section
243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality | 7 |
| Act. | 8 |
| (5) Persons granted conditional entry under Section | 9 |
| 203(a)(7) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act as in | 10 |
| effect prior to April 1, 1980. | 11 |
| (6) Persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence | 12 |
| under the
Immigration and Nationality Act. | 13 |
| (7) Parolees, for at least one year, under Section | 14 |
| 212(d)(5) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act. | 15 |
| (8) Nationals of Cuba or Haiti admitted on or after | 16 |
| April 21, 1980. | 17 |
| (9) Amerasians from Vietnam, and their close family | 18 |
| members, admitted
through the Orderly Departure Program | 19 |
| beginning on March 20, 1988. | 20 |
| (10) Persons identified by the federal Office of | 21 |
| Refugee Resettlement
(ORR) as victims of trafficking. | 22 |
| (11) Persons legally residing in the United States who | 23 |
| were members of a
Hmong or Highland Laotian tribe when the | 24 |
| tribe helped United States personnel
by taking part in a | 25 |
| military or rescue operation during the Vietnam era
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| (between
August 5, 1965 and May 7, 1975); this also |
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| includes the person's spouse, a
widow
or widower who has | 2 |
| not remarried, and unmarried dependent children. | 3 |
| (12) American Indians born in Canada under Section 289 | 4 |
| of the
Immigration and Nationality Act and members of an | 5 |
| Indian tribe as defined in
Section 4e of the Indian | 6 |
| Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. | 7 |
| (13) Persons who are a spouse, widow, or child of a | 8 |
| U.S. citizen or a
spouse or child of a legal permanent | 9 |
| resident (LPR) who have been battered or
subjected to | 10 |
| extreme cruelty by the U.S. citizen or LPR or a member of | 11 |
| that
relative's family who lived with them, who no longer | 12 |
| live with the abuser or
plan
to live separately within one | 13 |
| month of receipt of assistance and whose need for
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| assistance is due, at least in part, to the abuse. | 15 |
| (b) Those persons who are in the categories set forth in | 16 |
| paragraphs (6) and (7)
of subsection (a), who enter the United | 17 |
| States on or
after August 22,
1996, shall not be eligible for 5 | 18 |
| years beginning on the date the person
entered the United | 19 |
| States. | 20 |
| (c) The Department may, by rule, cover prenatal care or | 21 |
| emergency
medical care for non-citizens who are not otherwise | 22 |
| eligible under this
Section. | 23 |
| (d) Nothing in this Section shall affect the eligibility | 24 |
| status of a child who is enrolled in the Covering ALL KIDS | 25 |
| Health Insurance Program on the effective date of this | 26 |
| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly. |
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| (e) The Department shall adopt rules to implement the | 2 |
| changes made by this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 3 |
| Assembly by January 1, 2012. The Department shall create, by | 4 |
| rule, compliance dates for new applicants and existing | 5 |
| applicants.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 |
| becoming law.".
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