Joint Budget Committee. The department of health care policy and financing (state department) received federal authorization to provide coverage for health-related social needs and to provide reentry services to justice-involved individuals through the medicaid program. The federal authorization requires the savings of state money realized from the federal authorizations to be spent on similar services.
The bill creates 2 cash funds, one for health-related social needs
and one for reentry services for justice-involved individuals. The bill requires the state treasurer to transfer the savings of state money realized from each federal authorization to the respective cash fund. Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the state department may expend money from the funds to provide health-related social needs or reentry services to justice-involved individuals.
The bill requires the state department to develop a workforce to
provide peer support services in order to comply with the terms of the federal authorization for health-related social needs.
The bill authorizes the state department, subject to annual
appropriation by the general assembly, to spend money from the affordable housing support fund for services authorized by the federal authorization to provide coverage for health-related social needs.
The bill makes and reduces appropriations to the state department,
the department of corrections, the department of human services, and the department of local affairs.
