Revise Community Investment Language (language only)

Item 310 #2c

Language
Page 276, after line 5, insert:
"Mental Retardation Waiver Slots to Eliminate Urgent Care Waiting List for Children Under Age Six       $4,937,498      $5,755,628".
Page 276, line 6, strike "4,972,250" and insert "7,652,250".
Page 276, line 6, strike "9,260,816" and insert "13,260,816".
Page 276, line 7, strike "320,000" and insert "580,000".
Page 276, line 12, strike the first "3,750,000" and insert "4,784,000".
Page 276, line 12, strike the second "3,750,000" and insert "4,784,000".
Page 276, line 23, strike "77,668,587" and insert "86,580,085".
Page 276, line 23, strike "90,947,637" and insert "101,737,265".
Page 276, line 25, strike "54,126,191" and insert "59,228,940".
Page 276, line 25, strike "62,098,136" and insert "68,009,950".
Page 276, line 26, strike "23,542,396" and insert "27,351,145".
Page 276, line 26, strike "28,849,501" and insert "33,727,315".
Page 276, strike lines 38 through 42.

Explanation
(This amendment modifies language in the introduced budget depicting funding for mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services community investment through system restructuring. Language is added to include the funding for 110 mental retardation waiver slots to eliminate the urgent care waiting list for children under age six. Also, language is modified to: (i) reflect an additional $3.3 million from the general fund and $3.3 million from nongeneral funds provided for the phase-in of 65 new mental retardation waiver slots over the biennium, (ii) reflect the addition of attendant waiver start-up costs of $260,000 in the first year, and (iii) reflect the addition of $500,000 each year for jail diversion services and $534,000 each year for alternative treatment pilot projects for opiate addiction. Language contained in the introduced budget related to the financing of facility replacement costs and the estimated facility replacement costs is eliminated.)