Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-484

EHS 484

Equitable Behavioral Health Crisis Evaluations

Messrs. Keenan and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 5047-0001, by adding the following words:- “; provided further, that $5,000,000 shall be expended to cover behavioral health crisis evaluations in acute care hospitals provided to uninsured patients and to Medicare-only patients”; and by striking out the figure “$22,371,962” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$27,371,962”.