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BUDGET AMENDMENTS

F The SENATE brought in an amendment to adopt the Governor’s budget. They are making amendments to that budget:

• ADOPTED on 3rd Reading: $1,666,653 to support the Wyoming Home Services program, which helps keep seniors living in their home and saves money. Of that $151,195 will support food costs.
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: An amendment to increase community colleges budget by $9.5M for inflationary costs.
• ADOPTED on 3rd Reading: An amendment to increase community colleges budget by $5M for inflationary costs. 

 The HOUSE is working from the original Joint Appropriations Committee budget which slashed exception request funding from the governor’s budget. There were 122 amendments in reading 2, very few of which passed. There are 118 amendments in reading 3 including: 

• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $63,123 for two staff people who will check eligibility for Medicaid long-term care. As WY’s elder population increases, this is becoming more difficult to keep up with and processing times may lengthen.
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $11,107,830 to increase Medicaid maternal health. ~33% of Wyoming births are to moms on Medicaid. This would increase the payments to physicians who accept Medicaid and help keep hospitals open.
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $672,728 to increase the home health rate payments to 70% of Medicare.
• WITHDRAWN on 3rd Reading (which means it didn’t get read in): $17M for grants to public hospitals to support delivery and maternity services. This amendment also notes if anything in the rural health transformation fund bill has overlap, each dollar spent here will be reduced.
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $3,145,000 to support the Dept. of Family Services IT platform. Without this increase, the dept will have to go back to paper processing. In the case of childcare, this would be carbon copy triplicates. 
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $1,767,024 for Sun Bucks summer food program for kids. These dollars provide $40/month to families to supplement meals during the summer. This would allow families to access the grocery store anytime, rather than figuring out how to get their child to a summer feeding site. 
• FAILED on 3rd Reading: $3,473,360 to support SNAP Education, also known as Cent$ible Nutrition. SNAP ED gives our Wyoming neighbors the tools and information to eat healthy on a budget.