Proposed legislation before the Delaware General Assembly would allow all children to qualify for the state’s health insurance program.

Lt. Gov. Matt Denn, the state’s former insurance commissioner, and two members of the state legislature unveiled a bill April 30 that  would promote Delaware Covers All Kids (House Bill 139), according to the Wilmington News Journal.

Denn, Rep. Terry Schooley (D-Newark) and Sen. Patricia Blevins (D-Elsmere) introduced the bill that would allow parents, regardless of income level, to sign their children up for the Delaware Healthy Children Program. The program is the state’s low-cost program for uninsured children in households earning 200% of the poverty mark or less, providing medical coverage for premiums between $10 and $25 per month.

The legislators said that the bill would allow kids into the program at no additional cost to Delaware taxpayers.

Denn said parents making more than the program’s income requirement would pay a premium to cover the cost of medical treatment, according to the report. He added that the state would establish a premium based on the average cost of providing medical care to children already in the program, about $110 a month.

The proposed legislation would limit the program to children who have been without coverage for three months, unless their parent became recently unemployed, saw their coverage involuntarily terminated or are in the process of switching from another state’s low-income health insurance program, the News Journal reported.