HB1715_S_Cmte_Amend

SECTION 1. 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 the Department of Human Services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021.... $ 179,977,212.00.

SECTION 2. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in any special fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Human Services which is comprised of special source funds collected by or otherwise available to the department for the support of the various divisions of the department, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the department for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021

............................................ $ 1,399,712,340.00.

SECTION 3. None of the funds appropriated by this act shall be expended for any purpose that is not actually required or necessary for performing any of the powers or duties of the Department of Human Services that are authorized by the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, state or federal law, or rules or regulations that implement state or federal law.

SECTION 4. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 1 of this act and authorized for expenditure under the provisions of Section 2 of this act, not more than the amounts set forth below shall be expended; however, notwithstanding any other provision in this act, it is the intent of the Legislature that any amount of funds and positions may be transferred between the Department of Human Services and the Department of Child Protection Services in order to comply with agreements made by the State of Mississippi with the United States District Court in reference to the Olivia Y., et al. lawsuit.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

FUNDING:

General Funds......................... $ 65,029,333.00.

Special Funds......................... $ 1,281,048,791.00.

Total............................ $ 1,346,078,124.00.

With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:

AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent: Full Time............ 1,741

Part Time............ 1

Time-Limited: Full Time............ 474

Part Time............ 0

DIVISION OF CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES

FUNDING:

General Funds......................... $ 114,947,879.00

Special Funds......................... $ 118,663,549.00

Total................................. $ 233,661,428.00

With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:

AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent: Full Time............ 1,537

Part Time............ 0

Time-Limited: Full Time............ 417

Part Time............ 0

None of the funds herein appropriated shall be used in violation of Internal Revenue Service's Publication 15-A relating to the reporting of income paid to contract employees, as interpreted by the Office of the State Auditor.

SECTION 5. It is the intention of the Legislature that the Department of Human Services and Department of Child Protection Services shall maintain complete accounting and personnel records related to the expenditure of all funds appropriated under this act and that such records shall be in the same format and level of detail as maintained for Fiscal Year 2020. It is further the intention of the Legislature that the agency's budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in a format and level of detail comparable to the format and level of detail provided during the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request process.

SECTION 6. Of the funds appropriated in Section 2 herein to Department of Human Services, One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) shall be transferred to the Department of Health, Child Care Licensure Program from the Child Care Development Fund or other appropriate special fund. These funds are to be transferred to the Board of Health no later than July 31, 2020. The Department of Health shall make a complete accounting to the Department of Human Services detailing the uses of these funds in accordance with federal and state regulations.

SECTION 7. It is the intention of the Legislature that whenever two (2) or more bids are received by this agency for the purchase of commodities or equipment, and whenever all things stated in such received bids are equal with respect to price, quality and service, the Mississippi Industries for the Blind shall be given preference. A similar preference shall be given to the Mississippi Industries for the Blind whenever purchases are made without competitive bids.

SECTION 8. The Department of Human Services and the Department of Child Protection Services are authorized to expend available funds on technology or equipment upgrades or replacements when it will generate savings through efficiency or when the savings generated from such upgrades or replacements exceed expenditures thereof.

SECTION 9. It is the intention of the Legislature that none of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay certain utilities for state furnished housing for any employees. Such utilities shall include electricity, natural gas, butane, propane, cable and phone services. Where actual cost cannot be determined, the agency shall be required to provide meters to be in compliance with legislative intent. Such state furnished housing shall include single-family and multi-family residences but shall not include any dormitory residences. Allowances for such utilities shall be prohibited.

SECTION 10. In compliance with the "Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994," it is the intent of the Legislature that the funds provided herein shall be utilized in the most efficient and effective manner possible to achieve the intended mission of this agency. Based on the funding authorized, this agency shall make every effort to attain the targeted performance measures provided below:

FY2021

Performance Measures Target

Support Services

Percentage of Referred/Directed

Investigative Audits Conducted (%) 100.00

Percentage of Special Investigations

Conducted (%) 95.00

Percentage of Referred/Obtained Fraud

Investigations Conducted Timely (%) 100.00

Percentage of Referred Administrative

Disqualification Hearings & Fair

Hearings Conducted Timely (%) 99.00

Percentage of Monitoring Reviews

Conducted within Acceptable Timeframes

(%) 98.00

Total Amount of Funds Recovered ($) 3,500,000.00

Aging & Adult Services

In-Home Services - Age 60 + (Persons Served) 100,542

Community Services - Age 60 + (Persons

Served) 73,787

Congregate Meals (Number of) 232,791

Home Delivered Meals (Number of) 1,486,361

Substantiated Incidences of Abuse of

Vulnerable Adults per 1,000 Population 0.20

Home Delivered Meals, Percent Reduction

of Persons on Waiting list (%) 5.00

Child Support Enforcement

Paternities Established (Number of) 12,200

Percent Change in Paternities

Established (%) -4.00

Obligations Established (Number of) 25,200

Percent Change in Obligations

Established (%) 2.00

Total Collections ($) 374,500,000.00

Percent Change in Total Collections (%) 1.50

Absent Parents Located (Number of) 72,000

Child Support Cases Current on Payments (%) 25.00

Community Services

Elderly Served by CSBG & LIHEAP (Number of) 19,579

Disabled Served CSBG/LIHEAP (Number of) 18,000

Households Achieving Self-Sufficiency

CSBG/LIHEAP (Number of) 882

Increase in Rate of Household Attaining

Self-Sufficiency (%) 2.00

Households Stabilized CSBG/LIHEAP

(Number of) 17,712

Percent Increase in the Number of

Households Stabilized (%) 2.00

Households Weatherized (Number of) 516

Early Childhood Care & Dev

Children Served (Number of) 28,000

Assistance Payments

Dollar Amount of Assistance ($) 690,000.00

Food Assistance

Average Monthly Households 225,000

Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program

- SNAP ($) 716,413,100.00

Percentage of Mississippi Households

Receiving SNAP Benefits (%) 22.51

Tanf Work Program

Average Monthly TANF Households (Number of) 4,600

Average Monthly Persons Served in TANF

Work Program (Number of) 1,107

TANF Work Program Participation Rate (%) 60.00

Persons Employed Through the TANF Work

Program for the Year (Number of) 720

Households Receiving TANF Benefits

During the Year (Number of) 4,600

Percentage of Households Receiving TANF

During the Year (%) 49.00

Percentage of TANF Participants in Job

Training Who Enter Employment (%) 30.00

Percentage of TANF Participants in Job

Training Who Enter Employment at a

Salary Sufficient to be Ineligible for

TANF (%) 19.00

Percentage of TANF Participants in Job

Training Who Remain Employed for: One

Year After Leaving the Program (%) 75.00

Percentage of TANF Participants in Job

Training Who Remain Employed for: Five

Years After Leaving the Program (%) 65.00

Social Services Block Grant

Clients Served, Division of Family &

Children's Services (Number of) 75,611

Clients Served, Aging & Adult Services

(Number of) 21,178

Clients Served, Youth Services (Number of) 12,880

Youth Services

Community Services (Children Served) 12,500

Institutional Component (Children Served) 300

Volunteers - Community

Services/Institution (Number of) 100

Children Placed in Alternative Placement

(Number of) 0

Children Diverted from Institutional

Care (%) 85.00

Recidivism Rate (%) 20.00

A reporting of the degree to which the performance targets set above have been or are being achieved shall be provided in the agency's budget request submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for Fiscal Year 2022.

SECTION 11. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement, make a concentrated effort to increase collections of past due child support payments. On or before January 1, 2021, the Executive Director of the Department of Human Services shall submit a report to the Legislative Budget Office detailing year-to-date performance measures in the Child Support Enforcement Program compared with the prior year.

SECTION 12. It is the intention of the Legislature that the Department of Human Services shall have the authority to spend such additional funds as it shall receive from the federal government in incentives or the federal match on those incentives for the purpose of child support enforcement.

SECTION 13. Of the funds appropriated in Section 1, Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) shall be transferred to the Juvenile Facility Monitoring Unit at the Department of Public Safety no later than July 31, 2020.

SECTION 14. Of the funds appropriated herein, to the Department of Human Services One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00), is provided for the support of the Home Delivered Meals Program and any additional funds that may be appropriated to this program.

SECTION 15. Of the funds provided in Section 1, herein to the Department of Human Services, an amount not to exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) is provided to fund the Senior Olympics Program.

SECTION 16. Of the funds appropriated in Section 1, herein to the Department of Child Protection Services, it is the intention of the Legislature that Ninety-three Thousand Six Hundred One Dollars ($93,601.00) shall be allocated to the Mississippi Children's Trust Fund supported from General Fund court assessments.

SECTION 17. It is the intention of the Legislature that the Governor’s Office, Division of Medicaid and the Department of Human Services shall continue to work together to implement HB 1090 of the 2017 Regular Session, known as the "Medicaid and Human Services Transparency and Fraud Prevention Act".

SECTION 18. Of the funds appropriated by this act, pursuant to House Bill No. 571, 2019 Regular Session, Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) is provided for establishing a 24 hour hotline that is to be manned at all times, and for a coordinator to work with the Department of Public Safety, and to contract with outside agencies or service providers to organize for the provision of specialized services, including counseling services and other appropriate care to children who have been victims of commercial and sexual exploitation or human trafficking.

SECTION 19. It is the intention of the Legislature that the Department of Human Services is hereby authorized to pay invoices submitted by Canon Financial Services, Inc., Chicago, IL for services in Fiscal Year 2018 in an amount not to exceed One Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Dollars ($1,490.00).

SECTION 20. As a condition of receiving and expending any funds appropriated under this act, the Department of Human Services:

(a) Shall use a competitive procurement process for entering into all TANF subgrant agreements with non-state entities when the federal government does not direct to whom the funds must be subgranted;

(b) Upon awarding of a grant to any subgrantee of the department, shall require the subgrantee to submit a monthly report to the department that contains, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(i) A listing of all costs incurred by the subgrantee during the previous month;

(ii) A listing of all clients served by the subgrantee, with an explanation of which services were provided to the clients;

(iii) A listing of all lower-tier subgrantees, who must be approved by the department before the execution of any such agreement by the prime subgrantee; and

(iv) Any other data required by the department to provide sufficient evidence of budgetary compliance;

(d) Shall reimburse a subgrantee for expenses only after the required documentation is provided and is approved by the department.

SECTION 21. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the proper fund or funds as set forth in this act, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers, in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 22. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020, and shall stand repealed June 30, 2020.