KIDCARE-ELIGIBILITY MORATORIUM

Amends the Children's Health Insurance Program Act, the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, there shall be a 2-year moratorium on the expansion of eligibility under the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Program. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, there shall be a 2-year moratorium on the expansion of eligibility or the creation of new programs which would add new categories of eligible individuals under the Medicaid program. Further provides that eligibility under these programs may be expanded only if authorized by a 3/5 vote in both the House and Senate. Effective immediately.