HB1 Conference Summary: Health and Human Services Commission

Budget
May 23, 2019
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 The Conference Committee on HB1 released the following decisions. Technical Adjustments and Cross Strategy Issues. The Conference Committee made the following technical adjustments to HB1: Adopting House Rider 2, Capital Budget, providing $1,840,000 in authority for new projects to align with decisions regarding capital budget authority for furniture, fixture, and equipment purchases for newly renovated units at state hospitals. Amended House Rider 97/Senate Rider 94, Limitations on Transfer Authority, to allow HHSC to make certain transfers related to contingency contracts in excess of $1,000,000 or 20% of the originating item of appropriation with notification only. The Conference Committee addressed the following cross strategy issues: Adopted the Senate provision of $1,562,397 in All Funds ($675,135 in General Revenue and $887,262 in Federal Funds) and 4.0/15.0 FTEs across three strategies to support the rollout of 1,628 waiver slots for certain community-based

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