To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Department of Health and Human Services. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To increase certain line-item spending proposals, or add $100 spending "placeholders," for programs and proposals related to suicide and depression, drug treatment, food banks, research on Alzheimer treatments and some others.

To add $20 million for a "prepaid inpatient health plan financial contingency fund".

To reduce spending on certain pregnancy prevention programs or family planning local agreements that include abortion counseling, and remove language that prohibits the state from contracting with organizations that provide abortions.

To transfer $3 million from low-income home energy subsidies and give it instead to a group that assists low-income customers who haven't paid their water bills avoid having their service shut-off.

To authorize the extension of a Medicaid "behavioral health and physical health benefit and financial integration demonstration model" pilot program beyond the October 2021 date when it is supposed to report results and expanded statewide if effective.

To require individuals who provide Medicaid adult home help services to be paid $15 an hour, and appropriate more money to do so.

To require Medicaid home- and community-based service providers to pay workers at least $15 an hour, and add $100 million to the $346 million line item for this program.

To add an amount of additional spending to be determines later to support vaccine education programs.

The Senate version of the Department of Health and Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2019. This covers welfare and Medicaid spending and is by far the state's largest annual appropriation. The bill would authorize $26.130 billion in gross spending, of which $18.228 billion is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To send the bill back to the Senate as just a "shell" or "placeholder" budget with no actual appropriations. This is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.

To send the bill back to the House as just a "shell" or "placeholder" budget with no actual appropriations. This is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.

The House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 Health and Human Services budget. This would appropriate $26.452 billion in gross spending compared to $24.880 billion enrolled the previous year. Some $18.393 billion of this budget is federal money.