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Senate committee hears push to lock mental‑health contract funding; sponsor to rewrite bill after DHS concerns
Summary
Senator Hammer presented SB519 to hold community mental health center contract funding at 07/01/2018 levels; DHS warned federal grants and Medicaid reimbursements fluctuate and cited a prior state general revenue line of about $2 million. The sponsor said she will pull the bill to add "other revenue streams" and meet with DHS before returning it to committee.
Senator Hammer brought Senate Bill 519 to the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee seeking to protect funding levels for community mental health centers once they enter state contracts. She said the centers "provide a very essential valuable service" in all 75 counties and asked that future contract funding be held "to that which is appropriated as of 07/01/2018" so providers would not be forced to "do more with less."
Jay Hill, division director for aging and adult behavioral health services at…
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