Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-533-R1

Redraft EHS 533

Behavioral Health Services for Older Adults

Ms. DiZoglio, Messrs. O'Connor and Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4120-1000, by adding the following words:- “; provided further, that funds may be expended to pilot community-based sites to provide comprehensive health services to adults under the age of 60 to: (i) divert such adults from being placed in nursing homes; or (ii) release such adults from nursing homes; provided further, that not later than April 1, 2022, the commission shall submit a report to the joint committee on elder affairs and the house and senate committees on ways and means on the status of implementing the community-based sites”.