[NFBMT] MT Legislature: Updated Schedule for Budget Hearings for Health and Human Services

[BRUCE&JOY BRESLAUER]

The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, which
will work on Part B (the part of the budget that funds the Department of
Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)) of Gov. Bullock's proposed budget,
has changed their hearing schedule. Most notably, the hearing for the Senior
and Long-term Care Division has been moved from the 23rd to the 24th and the
hearing for the Health Resources Division has been moved to the 23rd. A full,
updated schedule for the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and
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The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services meets
every weekday starting at 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. If you are not able to
make it to Helena to attend or listen in on any of these committee hearings,
you can also listen online on the Watch & Listen link on the legislative
website.  https://leg.mt.gov/

 

 

Some important dates for the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and
Human Services are:

.     January 17: Biennial Medicaid Report

.     January 18: 2021 Biennium Medicaid Estimates

.     January 21: Hearings and Public Testimony for the Medicaid and Health
Services Management Division and the Developmental Services Division

.     January 22: Public Testimony for the Developmental Services Division
(continued from the previous day)

.     January 23: Hearing and Public Testimony for the Health Resources
Division

.     January 24: Hearing and Public Testimony for the Senior and Long-Term
Care Division

.     January 25: Public Testimony for the Senior and Long-Term Care Division
continued from the 24th

.     January 28: Hearing and Public Testimony for the Addictive and Mental
Disorders Division

.     January 29: Executive Action for the Public Health and Safety Division,
Medicaid Funding, Medicaid and Health Services Management Division,
Developmental Disability Services Division, Health Resources Division, Senior
and Long-Term Care Division, and the Addictive and Mental Disorders Division

.     January 31: Hearings for the Disability Employment and Transitions
Division and the Human and Community Services Division

.     February 1: Public Testimony for the Disability Employment and
Transitions Division and the Human and Community Services Division

.     February 7: Executive Action for the Disability Employment and
Transitions Division and the Human and Community Services Division, and other
divisions

 

During these subcommittee hearings, it is vitally important for people to
show up in Helena and make your voices heard or, if you cannot make it to
Helena, to ensure that you send in written testimony via email or testimony
by phone. These hearings are important as this is the time where we may be
able to restore more of the cuts that devastated many disability services
over the past year, prevent further cuts to vital services, and ensure that
funding for existing and/or new services are adequate to be able to meet the
needs of individuals with disabilities across Montana.

Please stay tuned for those alerts.

 

Joy Breslauer, First Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Montana 

Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/> 

 

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