Introduced
by
The executive recommendation for the FY 2002-2003 Department of Community Health budget. This appropriates $9.086 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $8.596 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $2.563 billion will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $2.653 billion. This budget includes a $301.4 million base increase for Medicaid, Mental Health/Substance Abuse, Adult Home Help, and Children’s Special Health Care Services. It also has $115 million for expansion of the EPIC low income senior prescription drug program, and $113 million for the new MIFamily program expanding Medicaid to low income families who are above the poverty level, both from federal sources. To balance the budget it relies on a $247 million transfer from a state Medicaid Trust Fund (leaving $280 million in the fund).
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
