Increase the number of auxiliary grant slots for supportive housing
Biennium
2018-2020
Budget Round
Amended Bill
Half Sheet Number
343 #3c
Description
This amendment eliminates language that imposes a cap of 60 on the number of Auxiliary Grant recipients in supportive housing slots. House Bill 2017 and Senate Bill 1286 allow individuals receiving an Auxiliary Grant to select supportive housing without any requirement to make such selection. In addition, the legislation raises the cap on supportive housing slots to 90 slots and allows for up to 120 slots, if the waiting list for supportive housing for auxiliary grant recipients maintained by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services consists of 30 individuals or more on October 1, 2020. The state provides 80 percent of the funding for an Auxiliary Grant and localities provide 20 percent of the funding. No additional funding is needed to support the cost to provide an Auxiliary Grant to the additional individuals, who may select supportive housing pursuant to the legislation, because the Auxiliary Grant program expenditures continue to decline and the budget is sufficient. Language is added to require reporting of the number of individuals in an Auxiliary Grant supportive housing slot that were discharged from a state behavioral health hospital in the prior 12 months.