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Committee flags multiple Human Services line-item changes, including nursing-home training and guardianship funding
Summary
Conference committee members reviewed and questioned several line-item changes between the House and Senate Human Services budgets: reductions for nursing-home behavioral-health training, removal of a dementia coordinator FTE, accounting changes to LIHEAP, foster-care caseload adjustments, program eliminations and guardianship funding changes.
Committee members reviewed several individual Human Services line items where the House and Senate diverged and asked staff and agencies for clarifying documents.
The Senate reduced a line for behavioral-health services for nursing homes and basic-care facilities by $2,000,000; a member said this appeared to fund a third-party contract to provide training to nursing-home staff. The House position had added the item based on concerns about increasing complexity in basic-care residents.
The Senate removed…
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