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Increasing the amount of cash reserves mental health and disability services regions may have before affecting quarterly payment amounts and incentive fund eligibility
Sponsored by the Senate Human Resources Committee
Topics:Health careTaxesMental health & addiction
Same legislation: SSB 3116
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 16, 2022
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Mental health and disability services regions can now keep more money in their accounts before they face funding cuts. This change allows these regions to hold onto a larger amount of cash reserves based on what they spent the previous year.1
Read the official explanation
This bill increases the amount of moneys a mental health and disability services (MHDS) regional combined account may have before payments to the MHDS region are reduced and an MHDS region is disqualified from receiving funding from an MHDS incentive fund. The bill provides that, for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, an MHDS region’s cash reserves cannot exceed percent of the actual expenditures from the combined account for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in progress. Under current law, for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, an MHDS region’s cash reserves cannot exceed percent of the actual expenditures from the combined account for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in progress.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 23, 2022. On March 10, 2022 it recommended passage.
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