H-8265

   Amend House File 2643 as follows:
   1.  Page 6, line 8, by striking <The> and inserting 
   <1.  The>
   2.  Page 6, after line 14 by inserting: 
   <2.  A portion of the funds appropriated in this section shall be used to pay for both the federal and nonfederal shares of medical assistance for a person who is otherwise ineligible for medical care coverage, has established residence in this state in accordance with the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) between the government of the United States and the governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau pursuant to 48 U.S.C. §1921, Tit. 1, Article IV, section 141, and who, as of a date referenced in the most recently published enumeration of qualified nonimmigrants, is a resident of an affected jurisdiction as specified in the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-188.>

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ISENHART of Dubuque