Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 2496

BY: Representative Stringer

     AMEND by inserting a new SECTION 7 and renumbering succeeding sections, the new SECTION 7 to read as follows:

SECTION 7.  In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund, not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Governor's Office-Division of Medicaid, for the purpose of funding a temporary program to provide nonemergency transportation to locations for necessary dialysis services for end stage renal disease patients who are sixty-five (65) years of age or older or are disabled as determined under Section 1614(a)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, as amended, whose income did not exceed one hundred thirty-five percent (135%) of the nonfarm official poverty level as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and whose eligibility was covered under the former category of eligibility known as PLADS (Poverty Level Aged and Disabled), for the period beginning upon passage of this act and through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008$    3,900,000.00.

     AMEND FURTHER THE TITLE by inserting the words "THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE-DIVISION OF MEDICAID FOR FISCAL YEARS 2007 AND 2008," on line 5 between the comma and the word "THE"