HB 2329 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 36-2985 regarding the children's health insurance program (SCHIP/AHCCCS).

• Requires the administration to enroll children of United States military veterans who meet membership requirements, notwithstanding any enrollment cap or spending limitation imposed under the program.

• Maintains existing provisions allowing the director to stop processing new applications if funding is insufficient and to terminate the program if federal funding is eliminated or significantly reduced.

• Preserves the state spending limitation that prohibits health care expenditures from exceeding amounts appropriated by the legislature.