44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND MODEL HOME- AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE PROJECTS IN SILVER CITY AND ESPANOLA.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--

A. Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state agency on aging for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 for model projects in Silver City and Espanola that will provide funding directly to low-income, frail elders:

(1) who require home- and community-based services;

(2) whose income does not qualify them for the medicaid personal care option;

(3) who are qualified to receive disabled and elderly waiver services;

(4) who qualify to receive homemaking, home health, attendant care, personal care, respite care or adult daycare services funded by the disabled and elderly waiver but are not receiving those services; and

(5) who may be currently residing in a long-term care facility because they are on the waiting list for the disabled and elderly waiver.

B. The model projects shall be designed to provide the data needed to determine the cost-effectiveness of providing funding directly to qualified low-income, frail elders as an alternative to institutionalization and to determine if direct funding to low-income, frail elders causes service provision to be more efficient, effective and timely than current service provision models.

C. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the general fund.