Highlights of House-passed bill to expand government-provided health care to children of low and middle-income families:

_Preserves coverage for about 7 million children enrolled in the State Children's Health Insurance Program and extends coverage for an estimated 4 million more.

_Gives states the option of covering pregnant women.

_Gives states the option of covering legal immigrant children and legal immigrant pregnant women who have been in the country less than five years.

_Provides $100 million in grants for states, local governments, schools and others to enroll more eligible children.

_Increases the federal excise tax on cigarettes by 61 cents to $1 a pack. Other tobacco products experience similar tax increases.

_Mandates that states offer a dental benefit in their SCHIP programs.

_Denies new waivers for states seeking to use SCHIP funds to cover non-parent adults. Terminates existing waivers after one year..

_Makes it harder for physician-owned specialty hospitals to expand. Disqualifies new physician-owned hospitals from billing Medicare. Such hospitals tend to specialize in cardiac care, orthopedics and surgeries. General hospitals have complained that those hospitals are focusing on the most lucrative patients.

_Prohibits insurance companies from charging copays or deductibiles for mental health care higher than those charged for other medical services.