The Keep Kids Covered Act, introduced today by Reps. Leonard Boswell, D-IA, John Barrow, D-GA, and John Dingell, D-MI, would provide federal funding to more than a dozen states facing shortfalls in State Children’s Health Insurance Program funding in Fiscal Year 2007 to ensure their programs remain operational with no disruption in coverage. According to Boswell, some 530,000 children could lose coverage without the extra money. Yesterday, some 85 organizations asked Congress in a letter “to enact legislation immediately that provides additional SCHIP funding targeted at shortfall states.” Created in 1997, SCHIP is a federal-state partnership financed through block grants with funding caps.