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Subcommittees add funds for mental health, autism, housing vouchers and foster-care supports
Summary
Appropriations panels approved new funding for behavioral health and developmental‑disability services, autism centers, a Georgia housing voucher pilot and multiple child-welfare supports including foster-care rate increases and family supports.
House appropriations subcommittee presentations and votes added multiple targeted appropriations for behavioral health, developmental disabilities, autism services and child-welfare programs.
Key additions included: $1,000,000 for alcohol use-disorder peer-support expansion serving Northeast Georgia Medical Center and surrounding rural counties; funding for hepatitis C screening (an existing program described as having completed about 90,000 screens and 950 cures since 2016); a $1,700,000 allocation cited for the Georgia Housing Voucher…
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