Hanabusa Advocates Medicaid for COFA Migrants
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Congresswoman Colleen HanabusaCongresswoman Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii is advocating an amendment of title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which restricts welfare and public benefits for aliens. She is set to present a bill that will grant Medicaid access to COFA migrants.
Representative Hanabusa is a fourth generation Japanese-American whose grandparents were in internment during World War Two. She received her law degree in 1977 from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. She has been in public office and serving the people of Hawaii since 1998.
Here is an excerpt of the legislative language to be presented in the House:
"To amend title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to permit Med-
icaid coverage for citizens of the Freely Associated States
lawfully residing in the United States under the Com-
pacts of Free Association between the Government of
the United States and the Governments of the Federated
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Is-
lands, and the Republic of Palau."
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Sources:
1. Colleen Hanabusa, House of Representartives.
3. Hanabusa Bill. (Download .pdf of Bill)