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Health Care Access and Improvement
Elimination of $500,000 for start-up funding for FQHCs.
Addition of $500,000 in start-up grants for FQHCs in Jeff Davis and Marion counties.
Healthcare Facility Regulation
Addition of $7,454,466 to support strategic measures for stabilizing staffing in the nursing home program.
Medicaid - Aged, Blind, and Disabled
Reduction of $74,646,745 in State funds to reflect savings from the temporary FMAP increase through September 30, 2021.
Addition of $25,328,540 to provide a 10% rate increase for home and community-based service providers.
Addition of $11,932,550 to provide a 2% rate increase for skilled nursing centers.
Addition of $3,470,204 for skilled nursing centers to update the general and professional liability, property insurance, and property tax pass-through rate components to current costs.
Hear the report from KUAR s political reporter Sarah Kellogg.
A bill that would have widened an existing law regarding free speech on college campuses in Arkansas stalled Monday due to a lack of action.
Senate Bill 191, which would have created the “Free Thought In Higher Education Act,” failed to advance the Arkansas Senate Education Committee when no member seconded a motion to pass the bill.
Bill sponsor, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Jonesboro, called SB191 the next step of the current “Forming Open and Robust University Minds” or FORUM Act that the legislature passed in 2019. That law eliminated free speech zones on college campuses and instead declared all accessible outdoor areas on a campus to be a public forum.
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State lawmakers took no action to repeal or replace House Bill 6 on the last day of the lame session Tuesday. HB6 is the $1 billion nuclear bailout law at the center of a $60 million bribery probe.
Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, December 23:
Ohio’s next vaccine shipment delayed but more than expected
Lawmakers take no action on HB6
COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations rise above three-week average
Cleveland to administer 4,000 vaccine doses to paramedics, EMTs
Mayor: Body cam not activated in police killing of Black man
State report card grades remain on hold
Cuyahoga further delays resuming jury trials
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