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Committee backs regional behavioral health amendment, reduces $100 million request to $64 million and sets bill aside for later debate
Summary
Senators adopted an amendment to a bill that would fund regional behavioral health capacity; the amendment reduced the originally proposed $100 million set-aside to $64 million and left further action for later in the session.
The committee heard and adopted an amendment presented by Senator Mark Mather that reshaped a proposal for behavioral health capacity into a regional approach and reduced an original $100 million placeholder in the sponsor’s draft to $64 million.
Senator Mather described the amendment as an alternative to constructing a single large state hospital project in Jamestown: rather than a single new state facility, the proposal would provide…
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