Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed AB 1422 by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), a bipartisan, shared solution that will prevent nearly 700,000 children from losing their state-provided health insurance through the Healthy Families program and allow the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB), the agency that oversees the state’s Healthy Families Program, to open the program to new enrollment.

“I am proud that the legislature, health plans and health care advocates were able to come together and agree on an innovative solution to protect the health care of California’s most precious resource – our children,” said Governor Schwarzenegger. “This bipartisan legislation means that hundreds of thousands of California children will continue to have access to health care coverage – without any new General Fund dollars. This shared solution is a great example of the type of options we should be considering in this economic time.”

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