Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee cleared two bills for introduction — LLS 0425 restructuring county administration of public assistance programs and LLS 1020 establishing a Commission on Medicaid — with members repeatedly flagging that both drafts were rushed and would need substantial cleanup amendments before and after filing.
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“this should have happened a really long time ago. This is not about HR1. This is about ensuring that there should have always been better coordination between the state departments and the county departments.”
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Sign in to subscribeAll right. The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. I've never seen such an empty room. I know, it's weird. It's just us. We are let's do this, because I don't know how long that the House has. So we have three bill drafts. I think that we were shared by staff at some point. I don't even know when or what day it is. But let us start with the one that I think we've maybe had the longest, which is the County Administration for Public Assistance Program Programs bill. We have Mr. Dermody here. Yeah, long bill. But everyone has been working really diligently since the fall on coming to a good place on this bill. And I am actually incredibly impressed and grateful for all of the folks who have been working so hard on this to have come to agreement on this. We are facing challenges from HR1 and trying to avoid huge penalties for error rates there, as well as challenges with all of our safety net programs and essentially flat federal funding to continue to provide services that continue to cost more. And so I think this bill represents a really important step…
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