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S. 1827: KIDS Act of 2017

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S. 1827: KIDS Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-09-18 · Health · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-09-18 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

KIDS Act of 2017

Plain summary

Keep Kids' Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017 or the KIDS Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill extends funding through FY2022 for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project. In addition, the bill reauthorizes through FY2022: the qualifying-states option (which allows states that provided coverage to now CHIP-eligible children prior to CHIP's enactment to continue to provide such coverage), and the express-lane eligibility option (which allows states to use eligibility findings from other public benefit programs to determine children's eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP). Beginning in FY2020, the bill allows state child-health plans to adopt more restrictive eligibility standards with respect to children in families whose income exceeds 300% of the poverty line. (Sec. 3) The bill extends funding through FY2022 for the Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project and the Pediatric Quality Measures Program. (Sec. 4) The bill extends funding through FY2022 for specified outreach and enrollment grants. (Sec. 5) Current law provides states with an enhanced Federal Matching Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for child-health assistance through FY2019. The bill maintains the enhanced FMAP in FY2020, but halves the percentage-point increase.

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Official text

KIDS Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate with amendment(s))

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · 24 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1827, Keep Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017 (2017-10-23); CBO cost estimate: S. 1827, Keep Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure Act of 2017 (2018-01-05); CBO cost estimate: Extending Funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program for 10 Years (2018-01-11); CBO cost estimate: Extending Funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program for 10 Years (2018-01-11)

Cosponsors on this site

Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Deb Fischer (R-NE)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-s1827 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115