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2024 Session

Budget Amendments - HB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Cousins
Auxiliary Grant Rate

Item 328 #6h

Item 328 #6h

First Year - FY2025 Second Year - FY2026
Health and Human Resources
Department of Social Services FY2025 $14,500,000 FY2026 $14,500,000 GF

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Page 390, line 24, strike "$62,727,762" and insert "$77,227,762".
Page 390, line 24, strike "$62,727,762" and insert "$77,227,762".

Page 390, after line 40, insert:

"2. Effective July 1, 2024, the Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, is authorized to base approved licensed assisted living facility rates for individual facilities on an occupancy rate for 85 percent of licensed capacity, not to exceed a maximum rate of $2,500 per month, which rate is also applied to approved foster care homes. The Department of Planning and Budget is authorized to transfer up to a sum sufficient from the general fund in this item, if such funding is not required to fund the Auxiliary Grant rate increase, to cover any increase in Medicaid costs that results from the rate change."

Page 390, line 41, strike "2" and insert "3".

Page 390, line 44, strike "3" and insert "4".



Explanation

(This amendment adds $14.5 million each year from the general fund to increase the Auxiliary Grant Rate for assisted living facilities from $2,079 per month to $2,500 per month. The state provides 80 percent of funding for this program while the localities provide 20 percent.)