A1879

An ACT to amend "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 1995 (P.L.1995, c.164).

1. The following appropriation items in section 1 of P.L.1995, c.164, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 1996, are amended to read as follows:

GENERAL FUND GRANTS-IN-AID 46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 20 Physical and Mental Health 22 Health Planning and Evaluation--Grants-In-Aid
06-4260 Health Facilities Evaluation ................	[ $2,504,000]	$1,004,000
Total Appropriation, Health Planning and Evaluation ...[ $2,504,000]		$1,004,000
Grants:
Implementation of Statewide Health Information Network ............................. [($2,000,000)] ( $500,000)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the appropriation transfer from the Implementation of Statewide Health Information Network account of $900,000 for consulting services for pilot projects within the Department of Health for information and record management systems approved by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee on March 28, 1996 is rescinded and the sum transferred shall be restored to the Implementation of Statewide Health Information Network account.

GRANTS-IN-AID 54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 30 Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Development 32 Operation and Support of Educational Institutions 7601 Community Programs--Grants-In-Aid
01-7601 Purchased Residential Care ...................	[ $107,815,000]	$109,315,000
Grants:
Community Services Waiting List Reduction Initiative ..........................[($1,000,000)] ( $2,500,000)

This bill amends the fiscal year 1996 annual appropriations act to rescind $1.5 million of the $2.0 million appropriation to the Department of Health for implementation of a Statewide health information network (HINT) and shifts this $1.5 million to the Department of Human Services for the Division of Developmental Disabilities' Community Services Waiting List Reduction Initiative program. The bill also rescinds a recent transfer from the HINT account to the Department of Health for the consulting costs on three pilot programs that are duplicative of other health records and information management efforts underway in the Department of Health. The funds are shifted from the HINT account in order to reinforce the minimal funding commitment that has been made in fiscal year 1996, and proposed by the administration for fiscal year 1997, for the operating expenses of community care group homes for the developmentally disabled that are to be constructed with funds from the Developmental Disabilities Waiting List Reduction and Human Services Construction Bond Act of 1994.

Shifts $1.5 million FY1996 DOH appropriation for Statewide Health Information Network to Department of Human Services for operating expenses of community care group homes for the developmentally disabled.