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Senate Health & Welfare reviews budget-adjustment changes for health services, flags transport and nursing-home relief
Summary
Committee staff walked senators through House amendments to the state budget adjustment, highlighting a $45,000 boost for HIV and harm-reduction providers, a $30,000 increase for Meals on Wheels, reductions to proposed nursing-home relief and a one-time $800,000 for nonemergency medical transportation to backfill provider shortfalls.
Senate Health and Welfare members heard a briefing on the House-passed budget adjustment Friday, with staff summarizing a string of targeted changes for health and social services.
Staff said the House added a $45,000 general-fund increase for HIV and harm-reduction providers "above what the governor recommended," and separately approved a $30,000 boost for Meals on Wheels (SEG 097–104; SEG 105–110). The presenter also described a $14.5 million extraordinary financial-relief request for nursing homes that the House reduced by roughly $2.3 million and partly reallocated into rate increases for enhanced residential providers and case managers (SEG 111–119). "The House reduced that…
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