2009 House Bill 5409 ↩

Senate Roll Call 495: Passed

To appropriate $101.5 million to restore a 4 percent Medicaid reimbursement rate cut to hospitals and nursing homes. The money would come from additional revenue from a tax levied on nursing home and hospitals, which is used to get more federal Medicaid money. The bill also appropriates lesser amounts for a variety of purposes, and adopts various fund-shifts and revenue recognitions to match spending with revenue in the 2009-2010 budget. In particular it replaces $101.8 million in general fund revenue appropriated to the Community Health budget with tobacco lawsuit money, and also substitutes federal "stimulus" money for state general fund dollars in a number of areas.