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Amend the resolve by striking out all of section 1.
Amend the resolve in section 2 by striking out all of the 4th sentence (page 1, lines 18 to 20 in L.D.)
Amend the resolve in section 2 in the last line (page 1, line 22 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "2-A." and inserting the following: '2-A; and be it further'
Amend the resolve by inserting after section 2 the following:
‘Sec. 3 Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS)
 
State Boarding Home Z009
 
Initiative: Appropriates funds on an ongoing basis to increase the personal needs allowance for residential care/boarding home residents from $50 to $65 per month for supplemental security income eligibles and from $70 to $85 per month for other residents.

GENERAL FUND	2007-08	2008-09	
All Other	$445,590	$594,120	
 	  	  	
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$445,590	$594,120	
 
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Amend the resolve by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment limits the resolve to increasing the personal needs allowance for residential care facilities residents to $65 and $85 per month, with no inflation adjustment. This amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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