HB447 Summary

• Expands Alabama's Medicaid program to provide assistance to all eligible persons for whom federal matching funds are available under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

• Designates the Alabama Medicaid Agency as the lead agency responsible for implementing the Medicaid expansion program, with authority to request assistance from other state and federal agencies.

• Requires the Legislature to annually appropriate adequate funding to the Alabama Medicaid Agency for implementing and operating the Medicaid expansion program.

• Cites findings that approximately 397,000 uninsured Alabamians would become eligible for low-cost health insurance, with federal government covering 90 percent of costs as of 2020.

• Takes effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor.