• Cuts provider rate by an additional 1 percent for the Medicaid program (on top of the 3 percent cut already approved). This rate cut could mean providers may become less likely to accept Medicaid, making it harder for vulnerable families to get the health care they need.
  • Scales back income eligibility guidelines in the child care subsidies program, making it harder for moderate income families to access this work support. As a result, many families will no longer be able to access safe, quality care settings for their children.  This change will affect about 12,000 children statewide, and some parents will not be able to work without the subsidies to pay for child care.
  • Provides funding to increase the child care market rates for the Child Care Subsidy Program. However the reimbursement to child care providers is still well below the state’s market rate price for child care, meaning families who purchase care with subsidies have far fewer options and child care providers who provide that care are not being compensated fairly.
  • Scales back income eligibility guidelines for state-county special assistance that goes to people who are aged, blind and disabled. The budget grandfathers-in current participants, but makes it more difficult for future participants to access the health care they need.
  • Reduces funding to vocational rehabilitation.
  • Cuts funding for Home and Community Care Block Grant by nearly $1 million, despite long waiting lists for in-home and community care programs and services for older adults.
  • Provides funding for additional pre-K slots as well as additional funding for child protective services and children in the foster care program.
  • Provides additional funding for statewide medical examiner system.
  • Provides funding for one year for group home residents determined to be ineligible for Medicaid.
  • Provides funding to increase community-based crisis stabilization services such as psychiatric outpatient clinics, 24-hour crisis clinics, etc.
  • Provides $2 million in state matching funds to support the Health Information Exchange.

 

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