Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Cmte Sub for Senate Bill No. 2879

BY: Senator(s) Hopson

AMEND by inserting the following new section after line 112 and renumbering any succeeding sections:

SECTION *.  The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Capital Expense Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the credit of the Department of Finance and Administration for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred by the department as required by the Rose Isabel Williams Mental Health Reform Act of 2020, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021........................................

................................................ $   230,000.00.

The funds provided under the provision of this section shall be expended by the department to hire the Coordinator of Mental Health Accessibility under the occupational title of DFA-Deputy Director.  The department shall also expend the funds provided under this section to hire the Coordinator's contractual staff.

     FURTHER, AMEND the title on line 8 after the semicolon by inserting the following:

THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021;