House Bill 661 Summary

• Appropriates $39,887,800 to the Division of Medicaid for fiscal year 2022 (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022) across four plans: Coordinated ($11,250,000), Enhanced ($18,250,000), Basic ($1,500,000), and Expansion ($8,887,800)

• Reduces Medicaid appropriations by $45,562,200 across various fund sources including General and Federal cooperative welfare funds for the same fiscal period

• Appropriates $2,000,000 to the Division of Public Health Services ($800,000 for operating expenditures and $1,200,000 for trustee and benefit payments)

• Appropriates $6,000,000 to the Division of Psychiatric Hospitalization for personnel costs ($4,000,000 for State Hospital South and $2,000,000 for State Hospital West) and reduces appropriations by $5,350,000 from prior year

• Appropriates $250,000 to the Domestic Violence Council ($12,500 for personnel costs and $237,500 for trustee and benefit payments) and declares the act an emergency effective upon passage