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�1 <br />kl <br />Health and Human Services Legislative Proposals <br />Priority Goals as Determined by NCACC Board of Directors <br />1. Ensure adequate mental health funding <br />a. Seek legislation to ensure adequate capacity of state - funded acute psychiatric beds. <br />b. Oppose legislation to close state - funded beds until there is adequate capacity <br />statewide. <br />c. Seek legislation to maintain the existing levels of state funding for community mental <br />health services. <br />2. Retain State Aid to Counties — Seek legislation to retain the State Aid to Counties to maintain <br />federal matching funds. <br />3. Allow county flexibility to organize local human services. <br />a. Seek legislation to allow counties to organize human services based on community <br />need, including the removal of the population threshold in 153A -77. <br />b. Oppose legislation that would mandate consolidation of social services functions. <br />Other Goals <br />Maintain childcare subsidy funds and allocate to counties. <br />— Seek legislation to allocate all childcare subsidy funding directly to counties. <br />— Oppose legislation that would reduce childcare subsidy funding <br />Maintain TANF Funds to counties — Seek legislation to maintain existing levels of county TANF funding <br />to support and fund county DSS programs. <br />Maintain childcare subsidy administration — Seek legislation to maintain the Child Care Subsidy <br />Administration funding at 5 percent. <br />Increase State /County Special Assistance Residency Requirements — Seek legislation to increase the <br />number of days to establish residency for Special Assistance from 90 to 180 days, except for persons <br />who have entered the state to be supported by a close relative. <br />Require Back -up Generators for Adult Care Homes — Seek legislation to require all new adult -care <br />homes to have back -up generators prior to receiving certificates of occupancy and require all existing <br />adult -care homes to be equipped with back -up generators within three years. <br />Expedite NCFAST Automation and Policy Simplification — Seek legislation to expedite the <br />implementation of NC FAST and ensure automation builds on program and policy simplification and <br />includes interface protocols. <br />Retain "Electing" Counties' Financial Incentives — Seek legislation to retain financial incentives for <br />counties to be "electing" counties. <br />Attachment number 1 <br />G -5 Page 175 <br />