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Session of 1999
          House Concurrent Resolution No. 5025           By Representative Light           (By Request)           2-11          

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10             A  CONCURRENT RESOLUTION requesting that the Governor rec-
11             ommend and the Kansas Legislature enact funding increases for Fiscal
12             Year 2000 of at least 8% for in-home services under the Kansas Senior
13             Care Act and for other in-home long-term care and related programs
14             and services provided through the Department on Aging for elderly
15             Kansans.
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18             WHEREAS,  Kansas is one of 24 states that have a Silver Haired Leg-
19       islature and the Kansas Silver Haired Legislature conducted its 16th An-
20       nual Session in October of 1998; and
21             WHEREAS,  The Kansas Silver Haired Legislature adopted SHL Res-
22       olution No. 1505 which requested increased funding for in-home services
23       and related programs for elderly Kansans; and
24             WHEREAS,  Comparing the Governor's recommended Fiscal Year
25       1999 all funds budget to the Fiscal Year 1998 approved all funds budget
26       for the Department on Aging for nutrition grants, community grants,
27       Home and Community-Based Services for the Frail Elderly (HCBS-FE)
28       program and targeted case management services and excluding funding
29       for agency operations, nursing facilities and miscellaneous, the Governor
30       recommended funding for such programs and services equal to an ap-
31       proximately .1% decrease for Fiscal Year 1999 and the Kansas Legislature
32       appropriated funding for such programs and services equal to an approx-
33       imately 15.25% increase for Fiscal Year 1999; and
34             WHEREAS,  These in-home services under the Kansas Senior Care
35       Act and other in-home long-term care and related programs and services
36       provided through the Department on Aging for elderly Kansans are es-
37       sential for these persons; and
38             WHEREAS,  If these in-home and related programs and services are
39       not maintained and expanded to keep pace with the growing population
40       of elderly Kansans, then a substantial number of elderly Kansans will have
41       to be institutionalized to receive needed services: Now, therefore,
42             Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas,
43       the Senate concurring therein: That the Governor is hereby requested
44       to recommend and the Kansas Legislature is requested to enact funding
45       increases from all funds for Fiscal Year 2000 for in-home services under
46       the Kansas Senior Care Act and for other in-home long-term care and
47       related programs and services provided through the Department on Ag-
48       ing for elderly Kansans which constitute at least an 8% increase above
49       the approved funding appropriated from all funds for Fiscal Year 1999.
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