The Senate Human Health subcommittee of Appropriations met on Friday to discuss the FY07 budget that includes the funding for the 1,500 MRWP slots with $12.04 million state dollars. Some comments that I thought you might find interesting...
Senator Unterman announced that her Health subcommittee would recommend a total of (sit down!) 3,000 new services for the MRWP waiting lists with $35.7 million state dollars - this recommendation would double the House's proposal of 1,500 and would practically cut in half the number of people waiting. $11,589,794 of that state funding is new dollars and $24,147,199 are funds used previously to cover the deficit for state hospitals.
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Now a word of caution...we are still collecting information and this proposal is a long way from being final - we have heard that the $24M is very tenuous. This proposal also still needs to formally move through the Senate process with votes by all of the members of the Senate Appropriations and then by the full Senate. Their proposed FY07 budget would go to conference committee - where a group of 3 Representatives and 3 Senators work out whether the final budget includes 1,500 or 3,000 new MRWP services.
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