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Legislation to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will get a markup in the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Oct. 4, days after the program’s funding expires. CHIP funding expires Saturday, along with funding for community health centers. The House aims to include both programs in its bill, but Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has said he wants CHIP to stand alone. (Weixel, 9/28)

Congress will miss a Saturday deadline to renew a program that provides 17,000 Connecticut children with health care coverage, but, in its latest accounting, the state’s Department of Social Services says it has enough money to continue the program into next year. (Radelat, 9/28)

Community health centers are girding to keep the fight for Congress to re-authorize funding going deeper into autumn as the funding cliff approaches on Sept. 30 — with no legislation teed up. Clinics, which serve the working poor, uninsured and homeless around the state, are set to lose 70 percent of 2018 funding if Congress doesn't pass legislation to help them. Funds are allocated on a rolling cycle starting Jan. 1. For the cycle starting Feb. 1, Congress would have to act by early December. (Fletcher, 9/28)