CHAPTER 11
SB 36-FN-A - FINAL VERSION
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2000 SESSION
SENATE BILL 36 FN-A
AN ACT relative to salary increases for direct care providers for persons with developmental and acquired disabilities.
SPONSORS: Sen. Squires, Dist 12; Sen. Blaisdell, Dist 10; Sen. Gordon, Dist 2; Sen. Larsen, Dist 15; Rep. Emerton, Hills 7
COMMITTEE: Public Institutions, Health and Human Services
This bill authorizes the commissioner of health and human services to request moneys from the uncompensated care fund for salary increases for direct care providers.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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99-0496
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to salary increases for direct care providers for persons with developmental and acquired disabilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
11:1 Statement of Intent. The general court finds that direct care providers for persons with developmental and acquired disabilities currently earn an hourly wage of $7.54 or approximately $15,683 annually. This amount is insufficient to continuously attract qualified and committed providers and to pay those providers a minimally adequate hourly wage. The funding contained in section 2 of this act will raise the wage of direct care providers, of which there are approximately 1,575 in New Hampshire, to $18,034 ($8.67 per hour) in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001. It is the intent of the general court that the commissioner of health and human services request to fund the state portion through use of additional revenues under 1999, 225:2 or RSA 167:64.
11:2 Transfer. 1999, 225:5 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
225:5 Transfer. The commissioner of health and human services shall transfer not more than $4,553,875 for the purpose of paying direct care providers for persons with developmental and acquired disabilities. This amount shall be funded from non-budget funds including matching federal funds, funds from any other source received by the department, and from RSA 167:64. Notwithstanding RSA 167:64, it is the intent of the general court that the commissioner of the department of health and human services request under 1999, 225:2, the fiscal committee and the governor and council to approve use of any additional revenues or not more than $2,277,000 under RSA 167:64 for the purpose of the salary increase.
11:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.
(Approved: February 16, 2000)
(Effective Date: July 1, 2000)
LBAO
99-0496
1/19/99
SB 36 - FN-A - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to salary increases for care providers for persons with developmental and acquired disabilities and making an appropriation therefor.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services indicated this bill will increase state expenditures by $4,553,875 in FY 2000 and each year thereafter. State revenues will increase by $2,276,974 in FY 2000 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county and local revenue or expenditures.
This bill appropriates $4,553,875 in general funds for the biennium ending June 30, 2001 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the purposes of this act. This appropriation will be reduced by the amount of federal matching funds received.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department verified the number of direct care providers at 1,575, as indicated in the bill and assumed that federal matching funds would be 50% of expenditures, since the majority of individuals requiring direct care are medicaid eligible. The Department stated the appropriation would cover the additional benefits required by this bill.