Three million people originally set to receive vital health insurance through the expansion of Medicare were denied that insurance when the court struck down any expansion of the program.
The expansion of the program is expected to cost the state about $180 million a year by 2003.
That would be the biggest expansion of the program since its creation in 1965.
To finance expansion of the program, the Senate bill would increase tobacco taxes.
Scullion added there was already $10m committed for expansion of the program.
An expansion of the program is expected to be announced later this year.
Just three years ago, Congress approved a major expansion of the program with overwhelming support from both parties.
It identified school systems in New Orleans, Philadelphia and Washington as targets for an expansion of the program.
The national association facilitated the nationwide expansion of the program last year, with 15 major league teams involved.
A bipartisan handful of senators, including Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch, both Republicans, have since called for an expansion of the program.
