Appropriates general fund for a mandated increase in child welfare services expenditures. Public Law (P.L.) 110-351 created a change in Title IV-E program eligibility criteria which allows some children, who previously were not IV-E eligible, to now qualify for IV-E which has a 50 percent federal financial participation rate. Currently these children are in the state adoption program, which is funded with 100 percent general fund. This change requires Title IV-E agencies to spend all savings generated from implementing the revised adoption assistance eligibility criteria on child welfare services that may be provided under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act. The estimated cost of the Department’s mandated increase in child welfare services expenditures is $1.4 million in FY 2017 and $2.1 million in FY 2018. These costs must be reinvested by the Department as required by law.