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Committee to keep skilled-nursing funding, requests JFO/AHS report language and evaluation criteria
Summary
Appropriators agreed to continue funding for a skilled nursing support program but asked for specific reporting and evaluation language to be drafted with the Joint Fiscal Office and Agency of Human Services.
A conference committee on appropriations agreed May 6 to preserve funding for a skilled nursing facilities support program but asked for clearer reporting and evaluation language and for the Joint Fiscal Office and the Agency of Human Services to help define evaluation criteria.
Committee members said they had received a memo and charts with facility-level data and that more detailed evaluation language could help determine estimated savings and program effectiveness. "We're asking AHS if they have information about estimated savings from this work," a committee member said; the committee member also said they would ask the Joint Fiscal Office (JFO) and Senator Westman to work on language defining what the report should include.
Why it matters: members noted the program had produced results previously and that setting clear reporting requirements this year would help the legislature assess whether continued funding is justified.
Discussion and direction: the committee asked staff to draft statutory or bill language detailing the required report and specific evaluation criteria, and to circulate the PCB memo and related tables that were provided in committee. Members requested an explicit estimate of savings from AHS, if available, and said they would include reporting requirements in the bill language so the legislature can review program performance.
Next steps: committee staff will work with JFO and AHS to produce language for the bill and return to the committee with a draft report requirement and evaluation metrics.
