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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | October 9, 2015 09:28 AM |
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| From: | Representative Stephen Bloom |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | 2015-16 Appropriation – Services for Children with Special Needs |
| Since Governor Wolf’s June 30 veto of the 2015-16 general appropriations bill (HB 1192) and his September 28 veto of the four-month emergency funding bill (SB 1000), state and federal tax dollars have continued to accumulate in our state treasury. The governor’s vetoes have blocked these funds from reaching schools and human service providers, putting students and vulnerable citizens in peril. Vital programming has been cut and, in some cases, halted. Each day the crisis deepens, children lose education, workers lose jobs, and people in need lose help. Therefore, I will soon introduce the following and several other freestanding appropriation bills to fully release critical blocked funding for education, health, and human services, in amounts at or very near those proposed by the governor in his 2015-16 budget and passed by the General Assembly in HB 1192: A bill (HB 1583) to fund the Services for Children with Special Needs appropriation in the Department of Health’s budget at $1.582 million, the same amount included in HB 1192. The Services for Children with Special Needs program provides the following services to eligible children and adults with spina bifida and children with motor impairments: comprehensive medical evaluation, treatment, psychosocial support, case management, rehabilitation, diagnostic tests, laboratory studies, physical therapy, orthopedic bracing, pharmaceuticals and supplies. The program serves about 265 ventilator-dependent children living at home and provides rehabilitation services to 1,715 children with special needs. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important and urgently necessary legislation. |
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Introduced as HB1583