Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Department of Community Health budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add more spending for low income dental service subsidies.
The amendment failed 14 to 23 (details)
Amendment offered
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To increase spending on "behavioral health program administration" by $10.6 million, and authorize spending $5 million to implement recommendations of a state mental health commission.
The amendment failed 17 to 20 (details)
Passed in the Senate 32 to 5 (details)
The Senate version of the Department of Community Health budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2014. This would appropriate $17.492 billion in gross spending, compared to $15.385 billion originally authorized for the previous year, before that amount was increased by the legislature's adoption of the federal health care law Medicaid expansion. Of this, $12.023 billion is federal money. Most of this budget consists of Medicaid health care subsidies, including the "Obamacare" expansion.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 109 to 0 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
Received
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
