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2013 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Committee Approved)

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Adoption Services

Item 341 #4h

Item 341 #4h

First Year - FY2013 Second Year - FY2014
Health And Human Resources
Social Services, Department of FY2013 $0 FY2014 ($1,828,734) GF
FY2013 $0 FY2014 $828,734 NGF

Language
Page 306, line 31, strike "$175,237,067" and insert "$174,237,067".
Page 307, line 18, after "appropriation," strike the remainder of the line.
Page 307, line 19, strike "$350,000 from federal funds" and insert:
"$171,266 from the general fund and $1,178,734 from federal funds the second year".
Page 307, strike lines 21 through 23.
Page 307, line 24, delete "3" and insert "2".
Page 307, line 24, strike "$1,000,000 from the general fund and available federal funds" and insert:
"$171,266 from the general fund and $828,734 from nongeneral funds".
Page 307, line 27, delete "4" and insert "3".
Page 307, after line 30, insert:
"I.  Out of this appropriation, $32,829,644 the first year and $32,829,644 the second year from the general fund and $7,000,000 the first year and $7,000,000 the second year from nongeneral funds shall be provided for special needs adoptions.
J.  Out of this appropriation $32,485,408 the first year and $32,485,408 the second year from the general fund and $32,485,408 the first year and $32,485,408 the second year from nongeneral funds shall be provided for Title IV-E adoption subsidies ."


Explanation
(This amendment reduces $1.0 million from the general fund the second year for a new initiative to provide parents adopting foster care children with a $1,000 recognition payment, which would have been provided in addition to current adoption subsidy payments. The amendment also supplants $828,734 million in general fund dollars the second year with available federal funds to support recruitment of adoptive parents and ongoing supportive services to adoptive families to increase the number of adoptions of children in state foster care. Language is added which sets out amounts appropriated over the 2012-2014 biennium for special needs adoptions and adoption subsidies, totaling $32.8 million from the general fund and $7.0 million in nongeneral funds each year for special needs adoptions and $32.5 million from the general fund and $32.5 million from the nongeneral fund each year for adoption subsidies.)