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House Journal: Page 2009: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

2.  a.  If during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, the
department projects that state supplementary assistance
expenditures for a calendar year will not meet the federal
pass-along requirement specified in Title XVI of the federal
Social Security Act, section 1618, as codified in 42 U.S.C. }
1382g, the department may take actions including but not limited
to increasing the personal needs allowance for residential care
facility residents and making programmatic adjustments or upward
adjustments of the residential care facility or in-home
healtH-related care reimbursement rates prescribed in this Act
to ensure that federal requirements are met.  The department may
adopt emergency rules to implement the provisions of this
subsection.
b.  If during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, the
department projects that state supplementary assistance
expenditures will exceed the amount appropriated, the department
may transfer funds appropriated in this Act for medical
assistance for the purposes of the state supplementary
assistance program.  However, funds shall only be transferred
from the medical assistance appropriation if the funds
transferred are projected to be in excess of the funds necessary
for the medical assistance program.
3.  The department may use up to $75,000 of the funds
appropriated in this section for a rent subsidy program for
adult persons to whom all of the following apply:
a.  Are receiving assistance under the medical assistance home
and community-based services for persons with mental retardation
(HCBS/MR) program.
b.  Were discharged from an intermediate care facility for the
mentally retarded (ICFMR) immediately prior to receiving HCBS/MR
services.
The goal of the subsidy program shall be to encourage and assist
in enabling persons who currently reside in an ICFMR to move to
a community living arrangement.  An eligible person may receive
assistance in meeting their rental expense and, in the initial
two months of eligibility, in purchasing necessary household
furnishings and supplies.  The program shall be implemented so
that it does not meet the federal definition of state
supplementary assistance and will not impact the federal
pasS-along requirement specified in Title XVI of the federal
Social Security Act, section 1618, as codified in 42 U.S.C. }
1382g.
Sec. 6.  CHILD DAY CARE ASSISTANCE.  There is appropriated from
the general fund of the state to the department of human
services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending
June 30, 1997, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
For protective child day care assistance and state child care
assistance:  
	 $	 12,547,100
1.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $2,496,286 shall
be used for protective child day care assistance.
2.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $8,180,889 shall
be used for state child care assistance.
3.  For the purposes of this subsection, the term "poverty
level" means the poverty level defined by the poverty income
guidelines published by the United States department of health
and human services.  Based upon the availability of the funding
provided in subsection 2 the department shall establish waiting
lists for state child care assistance in descending order of
prioritization as follows:

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