President Bush Signs Supplemental Bill with Medicaid Provision

On June 30th, President Bush signed the War Supplemental Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2642) that included a moratorium on the Medicaid rule eliminating certain transportation and administration reimbursements to schools. Elimination of this reimbursement would have increased the burden on local school districts to cover costs while denying school districts funding that is entitled to them under law, and would have severely hurt the ability of school districts to provide needed services to students. Now that the bill has been signed, federal Medicaid reimbursements to schools for the administrative and transportation services that they provide to eligible students will continue until at least April 1, 2009.

To read the President’s message on signing H.R. 2642, please click on the following link http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080630.html.