FEE-FOR-SERVICE INITIATIVES

Urges the Department of Human Services to make periodic progress reports to the House Special Committee on Fee-For-Service Initiatives concerning the Department's transition to a fee-for-service methodology to pay providers for serving the State's clients with problems of substance abuse, developmental disability, and mental illness; and urges the General Assembly to adopt an operational budget for the Department of Human Services that reflects only the first six months of funding for the coming fiscal year, while appropriating the full year of grant lines.