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8 <br />Health and Human Services Legislative Proposals <br />Priority Goals as Determined by NCACC Board of Directors <br />1. Ensure adequate mental health funding <br />a. Seek legislation to ensure adequate capacity of state-funded acute psychiatric beds. <br />b. Oppose legislation to close state-funded beds until there is adequate capacity <br />statewide. <br />c. Seek legislation to maintain the existing levels of state funding for community mental <br />health services. <br />2. Retain State Aid to Counties -Seek legislation to retain the State Aid to Counties to maintain <br />federal matching funds. <br />3. Allow county flexibility to organize local human services. <br />a. Seek legislation to allow counties to organize human services based on community <br />need, including the removal of the population threshold in 153A-77. <br />b. Oppose legislation that would mandate consolidation of social services functions. <br />Other Goals <br />Maintain childcare subsidy funds and allocate to counties. <br />- Seek legislation to allocate all childcare subsidy funding directly to counties. <br />- Oppose legislation that would reduce childcare subsidy funding <br />Maintain TANF Funds to counties -Seek legislation to maintain existing levels of county TANF funding <br />to support and fund county DSS programs. <br />Maintain childcare subsidy administration -Seek legislation to maintain the Child Care Subsidy <br />Administration funding at 5 percent. <br />Increase State/County Special Assistance Residency Requirements -Seek legislation to increase the <br />number of days to establish residency for Special Assistance from 90 to 180 days, except for persons <br />who have entered the state to be supported by a close relative. <br />Require Back-up Generators for Adult Care Homes -Seek legislation to require all new adult-care <br />homes to have back-up generators prior to receiving certificates of occupancy and require all existing <br />adult-care homes to be equipped with back-up generators within three years. <br />Expedite NCFAST Automation and Policy Simplification - Seek legislation to expedite the <br />implementation of NC FAST and ensure automation builds on program and policy simplification and <br />includes interface protocols. <br />Retain "Electing" Counties' Financial Incentives -Seek legislation . to retain financial incentives for <br />counties to be "electing" counties. <br />