Welf. & Inst. Code, § 15901 · Part 3.5. HEALTH CARE COVERAGE INITIATIVE

Welf. & Inst. Code, § 15901

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) There is hereby established the Health Care Coverage Initiative to expand health care coverage to low-income uninsured individuals in California.

(b) The Health Care Coverage Initiative shall operate pursuant to the Special Terms and Conditions of California’s Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration project waiver number 11-W-00193/9 relating to hospital financing and health coverage expansion that became effective September 1, 2005. The initiative shall be implemented only to the extent that federal financial participation is available.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 76, Sec. 2. Effective July 18, 2006. Inoperative on date prescribed in Section 15908. Repealed six months after inoperative date, pursuant to Section 15908.

Source of truth

Edition: As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC&sectionNum=15901.
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