No Cuts in Services, Quality, or Rates

Item 388.1 #3s

Language
Page 364, line 6, strike "($2,113,743)" and insert "$558,092".
Page 364, line 6, strike "($2,641,221)" and insert "$860,003".
Page 364, line 10, after "act.", insert:
"No appropriations reductions distributed from this item shall result in a decrease in the amount or quality of services, or in the failure to provide a cost-of-living rate increase on January 1, 2001, for adult care residences, as authorized in Item 384.  General fund appropriations are provided in the amount of $75,000 the first year and $75,000 the second year for Hampton Healthy Start,  $250,000 the first year and $250,000 the second year for local domestic violence prevention programs, $50,000 the first year and $50,000 the second year for United Community Ministries employment programs, and $500,000 the first year and $1,250,000 the second year for Healthy Families child abuse prevention programs, to partially offset proposed reductions included in Senate Bill 800 of the 2001 Session, as introduced."

Explanation
(This amendment prohibits "management savings" in the introduced budget to be applied in ways that would adversely affect agency services. Also, the department would not be permitted to avoid paying a cost-of-living rate increase for adult care residences, as proposed in the introduced budget. General fund appropriations also are partially restored for a number of local programs designed to reduce child abuse or improve family well-being. The introduced budget substituted federal TANF funds for state funds in those programs. This amendment makes no reductions in the added TANF funds, to ensure that no reductions in services would be required.)