Select Budget Amendments Requested by Senators and Delegates
Select Budget Amendments Requested by Senators and Delegates
(not all budget amendments are in this chart)
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Fiscal Year 2019 (FY’19) begins July 1, 2018 Fiscal Year 2020 (FY’20) begins July 1, 2019
Chart prepared by the Virginia Association of Centers for Independent Living,
Department for Aging and Rehabilitative ServicesItem Description / Item Number / Patron / State Funds
FY’19 / State Funds FY’20
Combine EES and LTESS Employment Programs / 329 #1h
329 #8s / Delegate Ingram
Senator McClellan / Language only
Requirements for LTESS and EES Employment Services / 329 #9h
329 #9s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / Language only
Add Funds for Long Term Employment Support Services / 329 #2h
329 #3h
329 #8h
329 #1s
329 #2s
329 #3s / Delegate Sickles
Delegate Pogge
Delegate Hope
Senator Hanger
Senator Vogel
Senator Favola / $500,000 / $1,000,000
Increase Funds for Vocational Rehabilitation Services / 328 #4h
329 #10s / Delegate Heretick
Senator Marsden / $1,000,000
Add Funds for Brain Injury Services / 329 #5h
329 #4s / Delegate Sickles
Senator Howell / $2,000,000 / $2,000,000
Expand Brain Injury Case Management Services / 329 #5s / Senator Edwards / $4,375,000 / $4,375,000
Expand Centers for Independent Living to Unserved Areas / 329 #6h
329 #6s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / $287,651 / $287,651
Independent Living Transition Services through CILs / 329 #7h
329 #7s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / $334,737 / $334,737
Pay Increase for Brain Injury Service Program Contractors / 329 #10h / Delegate Tyler / $75,000 / $75,000
Address Waiting Lists for Services at Area Agencies on Aging / 330 #2h
330 #1s / Delegate Toscano
Senator Howell / $1,070,000 / $1,070,000
Dementia Care Management / 330 #3h
330 #2s / Delegate Landes
Senator Barker / $1,000,000 / $1,000,000
Increase Funds for Long-term Care Ombudsman Program / 334 #1h
334 #1s / Delegate Peace
Senator Barker / $1,176,021 / $1,176,021
HJR 109 Study of Transportation Needs of Disabled Individuals / 335 #1h / Delegate Gooditis / $50,000 / $50,000
SB 287 Use of Spinal Cord Injuries Data from Statewide Trauma Registry / 329 #11s / Senator McClellan / $25,000 / $25,000
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Item Description / Item Number / Patron / State Funds
FY’19 / State Funds FY’20
Competency Requirements for Supported Employment Providers / 310 #1h / Delegate Sickles / Language only
HB 118 Language Development Resources for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children / 310 #3h / Delegate Kory / $50,000 / $37,500
Fund Discharge Planning at Local Jails / 311 #1h / Delegate Watts / $4,109,900 / $4,109,900
Report on Bond Defeasance Costs of State Training Centers / 310 #5s / Senator Newman / Language only
Department of Education
Item Description / Amendment
Item # / Patron / State Funds
FY’19 / State Funds
FY’20
HB118 and HB232 Language Development Resources for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children / 129 #1h
129 #3h / Delegate Kory
Delegate Tyler / $196,000 / $107,500
HB221 Education Improvement Scholarship Tax Credit Program / 129 #2h / Delegate Miyares / $55,000 / $55,000
HB176 Pilot Program for Students With Disabilities to move from private to public schools / 129 #5h
129 #1s / Delegate Richard Bell
Senator Vogel / $55,000 / $55,000
Joint Subcommittee on Dyslexia Identification and Interventions / 134 #3s / Senator Newman / $24,440
Department of Medical Assistance Services
Item Description / Amendment
Item # / Patron / State Funds
FY’19 / State Funds FY’20
Add 2,296 DD Waivers Slots to Eliminate Priority One Waiting List
(144 CL Waiver slots, 1847 FIS Waiver slots, 305 BI Waiver slots) / 303 #1h
303 #2h
303 #9s
303 #12s / Delegate Torian
Delegate Guzman
Senator Howell
Senator Barker / $37,722,820 / $37,722,820
Add Reserve DD Waivers Slots (35 in FY’19 and 15 in FY’20) / 303 #3s / Senator Howell / $1,312,150 / $1,874,500
Add 15 DD Waivers Slots for Loudoun County / 303 #9h / Delegate Reid / $137,925 / $275,850
Priority Needs Access Program and Meeting Existing Needs in the Medicaid Program (305 BI Waiver slots) (2,296 Medicaid waiver slots to eliminate the Priority One) (“moves the waiver population into Medicaid managed care”) / 303 #40s / Senator Dunnavant / $294,459,688 / $648,360,966
Increase DD Waivers Group Supported Employment Rate / 303 #3h
303 #4h
303 #24s / Delegate Sickles
Delegate Hope
Senator Hanger / $175,000 / $175,000
Increase DD Waivers In Home Support Services Rate / 303 #5h
303 #17s / Delegate Sickles
Senator Howell / $250,000 / $250,000
Increase DD Waivers Direct Support Staff Rate in NOVA / 303 #6h
303 #5s / Delegate Hope
Senator Favola / $1,800,000 / $1,800,000
2.75% Rate Increase for Agency-Based Personal Care Services / 303 #19h
303 #23s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / $5,830,912
$5,830,912 / $5,830,912
$5,830,912
Implementation of Electronic Visit Verification Systems and 2.5% increase for Agency Personal Care and Respite / 303 #21h
303 #22s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / $5,300,829 / $5,300,829
Eliminate Overtime for Consumer-Directed Attendants / 303 #23h
303 #26s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / ($9,609,223) / ($9,609,223)
Eliminate Rate Increase for Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services / 303 #18h
303 #27s / Delegate Landes
Senator Hanger / ($4,773,196) / ($5,055,102)
Consumer-Directed Agency with Choice Model / 303 #24h
303 #28s / Delegate Miyares
Senator Reeves / Language only
Overtime for Consumer-Directed Services, up to 16 hours a week / 303 #25h / Delegate Tran / $9,609,223
Paid Sick Leave for Consumer-Directed Care Providers (Simon 5 days, Howell 5 days, Favola 3 days) / 303 #26h
303 #1s
303 #6s / Delegate Simon
Senator Howell
Senator Favola / $1,487,766
$1,487,766
$3,519,665 / $1,487,766
$1,487,766
$3,519,665
Private Duty Nursing Medical Necessity Review / 303 #28h
303 #14s / Delegate Garrett
Senator Dunnavant / Language only
HB 1056 Personal Needs Allowance Increase from $40 to $150 for people living in long-term care facilities / 303 #16h / Delegate Simon / $12,865,761 / $12,865,761
Personal Needs Allowance Increase from $40 to $100 for people living in long-term care facilities / 303 #29s / Senator Wexton / $13,833,360 / $13,833,360
Adult Dental Benefit in Medicaid / 303 #31h
303 #7s / Delegate Sickles
Senator Barker / $14,950,000
$14,950,000 / $18,400,000 $18,400,000
HB 673 Transitional Medicaid Assistance Services Program / 303 #42h / Delegate Davis / $12,900,000 / $12,900,000
Review of Managed Care Programs / 307 #5h
307 #6h / Delegate Hodges
Delegate Garrett / $100,000
Medicaid items listed here would also need an equal match of federal funds.
There are a number of Medicaid amendments that would expand Medicaid including amendments that would stipulate specific requirements when Medicaid is expanded.
The Governor’s introduced budget included the following Medicaid items:
75 FIS Waiver slots (25 in ‘FY19 and 50 in FY’20)
680 CL Waiver slots (325 in ‘FY19 and 355 in FY’20)
70 DD Waiver slots for people transitioning from facilities (35 each year)
50 reserved CL Waiver slots (25 each year)
16 hours a week of overtime pay for consumer-directed staff starting FY’20
2% rate increase for consumer-directed staff
$500,000 to train consumer-directed staff