CHIPP Act

Summary#

This bill, the CHIPP Act, changes Title XXI of the Social Security Act to make the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) permanent. It changes the funding language so that, beginning with fiscal year 2029, Congress provides “such sums as are necessary” each year to fund CHIP allotments to states. The bill also updates many time-limited provisions so they continue after their previous end dates.

The bill makes several specific program and funding changes in other sections of law. It provides $15,000,000 for the Pediatric Quality Measures Program for fiscal year 2030, and then requires future yearly amounts to increase by the consumer price index. It changes provisions for outreach and enrollment, including specifying 10 percent calculations for certain appropriations and providing $12,000,000 for outreach in fiscal year 2030 with future increases tied to the consumer price index. The bill adjusts the child enrollment contingency fund timing and removes or revises various expiration dates in existing CHIP and Medicaid-related provisions. It also gives states an explicit option to enroll children whose family income exceeds the state plan’s maximum income level as of the bill’s enactment.

What it means for you#

  • If you are a child or parent who uses CHIP, the bill aims to keep CHIP funding available every year after 2029 by making the program’s funding permanent in federal law.
  • States will continue to receive federal CHIP allotments under a standing funding rule ("such sums as are necessary"), rather than a time-limited funding authority that would expire.
  • States get an explicit option to expand eligibility to children whose family income is above the state plan’s current maximum as of enactment.
  • Some programs that support measurement, outreach, and enrollment in children's coverage get new funding rules and specified dollar amounts for 2030, with future increases tied to inflation.

Expenses#

  • The bill changes CHIP allotment language to: for fiscal year 2029 and each subsequent year, such sums as are necessary to fund allotments to states under subsections (c) and (m).
  • Pediatric Quality Measures Program: $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2030, with each subsequent year’s amount equal to the prior year’s amount increased by the consumer price index (CPI).
  • Outreach and Enrollment Program: specifies 10 percent calculations for certain appropriations and provides $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2030; for each fiscal year after 2030, the amount equals the previous fiscal year’s amount increased by CPI. The statutory text also adjusts other numeric appropriation language in that section.
  • Other provisions change timing or repeal of prior statutory limits; where the bill does not set a dollar figure it generally makes existing authorities permanent or ties future amounts to prior-year amounts adjusted by CPI.

Proponents' View#

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Opponents' View#

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