Committee advances companion measure to create revolving fund for home- and community-based services

Representative Blancet presented House Bill 4,412 as a companion to HB 4,407. She said the measure would create a revolving fund to capture monies related to home- and community-based services and PACE so those funds could be tracked and leveraged for public–private partnerships; she stressed the bill does not itself place new money in the fund but creates the structure to receive and manage relevant funds.

A do-pass motion was moved and seconded; the committee recorded 4 ayes and 0 nays and the chair declared House Bill 4,412 passed out of committee.

The sponsor thanked the committee and said agencies have already included budget requests; she described the bill as a companion to other senior-services proposals on the agenda.