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Please contact your State Legislators and urge them to co-sponsor LRB 3761/1 and LRB 3698/3 by contacting Senator Moulton (6-7511) or Representative Kaufert (6-5719) by noon on Friday, January 13, 2012.
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LRB 3761/1 and LRB 3698/3 Summary
Since 2000, the Family Care program has served many seniors and individuals who are developmentally and physically disabled. Currently, Family Care serves over 40,000 people across Wisconsin.
The 2011-13 state budget established a cap on the program until the Department of Health Services was able to find efficiencies within the program that would help stabilize it and make it sustainable. DHS has reported that they are now prepared to implement a plan that will do this.
The Survival Coalition worked with the Governor to draft this legislation to remove the Family Care cap and extend program coverage to seniors and individuals with physical and developmental disabilities in areas of the state that previously were not serviced by Family Care.
Their proposed legislation does the following:
This bill draft does not include an appropriation and makes no changes to the Chapter 20 budget schedule.
Please contact your State Legislators and urge them to co-sponsor LRB 3761/1 and LRB 3698/3 by contacting Senator Moulton (6-7511) or Representative Kaufert (6-5719) by noon on Friday, January 13, 2012.
Find your legislators contact info Here!
LRB 3761/1 and LRB 3698/3 Summary
Since 2000, the Family Care program has served many seniors and individuals who are developmentally and physically disabled. Currently, Family Care serves over 40,000 people across Wisconsin.
The 2011-13 state budget established a cap on the program until the Department of Health Services was able to find efficiencies within the program that would help stabilize it and make it sustainable. DHS has reported that they are now prepared to implement a plan that will do this.
The Survival Coalition worked with the Governor to draft this legislation to remove the Family Care cap and extend program coverage to seniors and individuals with physical and developmental disabilities in areas of the state that previously were not serviced by Family Care.
Their proposed legislation does the following:
- Repeals non-statutory language in the 2011-13 state budget that capped enrollment in Family Care, Family Care Partnership, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and the self-directed services option (IRIS).
- Repeals non-statutory language in the 2011-13 state budget that prohibits the expansion of Family Care to counties that currently do not receive the benefit and are operating under the community options and community integration programs.
- Repeals the non-statutory budget allocation in the 2011-13 state budget for urgent enrollment funding that was appropriated in conjunction with the enrollment cap.
- Makes no change to the requirement that DHS study various aspects of the cost-effectiveness of the states long-term care programs.
This bill draft does not include an appropriation and makes no changes to the Chapter 20 budget schedule.
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